Originally Posted by Regularguy

"If they replace the current MEC with the imbecile that presided over the MEC when the injunction was imposed, I'm turning in my ALPA wings in disgust! We’ll never get the contract we deserve with idiotic antics like this. God Help us all!"

However, don't make the CAL guys any models of behavior. Their EWR council leaders are the one(s) who lobbed publicly the bombs about banding and threatening the UAL guys with stonewalling the contract negotiations to get what they want.

The number one mistake both the UAL and CAL MECs made was to not to agree together to not fly any routes, domiciles or airplanes until a joint contract and integration was complete. So can anyone blame a management who takes advantage of the split by flying UAL airplanes and crews out of EWR, domicile a CAL airplane in a UAL domicile which had the same airplane, fly UAL airplanes out of IAH on new routes and more...

Gentlemen and Ladies of the two MECS, you messed up by fighting at the beginning.

But, back to the original statement. When I heard this rumor I felt the same, drop out of ALPA! Start my own union! Personally I'm tired of all this (yes I have served in ALPA positions so don't lecture me about getting involved) and I will not support Wallach or any of his cronies. Period!

Rumor also has it that DAL pilot pay scale is still on the Table? If this is true don't make the same mistake we made in 1985, when the UAL MEC rejected the AMR contract because it had a two tiered (b scale) which we ended up with any way after a bitter strike.

Get on with it, the contract and the integration!