Originally Posted by rocketiii

the way i see this going down is the company backs down then tries to play scope vs jcba compensation. We (cal) had scope that was never challenged until this merger debacle. Now the merger goes through and our livelihoods are immediately attacked. The company is looking to attack something that they can trade. But we are not trading. We have scope. We do not need to negotiate or trade for it. I hope the ual guys who do not have 70 seat protection will not take the 10 percent raise (20 or 30) and keep their current scope at the peril of losing the 50 seat protection cal has now. I see this as the play management is making. Just convince 51% that a pay raise is sufficient as they already have the 70 seaters. It's easy to accept the lack of scope in a new contract when you are on property and you don't have it anyway. Hopefully that doesn't happen on either side.