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Originally Posted by AllenAllert (Post 2447703)

Joe, giving your post above, how can BB’s post be factually correct. There is far more shinola than fact.

I was incorrect about the date. Getting old.

However, everything is factually correct about ALPA wanting IACP. But, if you read between the lines, ALPA wanted more than IACP. It wanted the CAL pilot group back under the fold. There was really no opportunity to do this after the 83 strike that broke ALPA. I don't see how ALPA could have done it until the IACP was formed.

One thing a union needs to form is union organizers working on the inside. The IACP leadership (original plus second cadre) worked tirelessly to build unity and cohesion amongst the pilot group to get not one, but two contracts. After IACP proved it could be effective, I think that got ALPA's attention that there were grass roots organizers and unionists on property that a push to bring CAL pilots back to ALPA could be done with minimal cost to ALPA. Since IACP was amassing a considerable war chest for what we predicted would be a huge contract battle for contract '02, ALPA looked at the dollars and cents of it and decided it was a wise financial decision.

There were only a handful of IACP leaders that looked favorably upon the ALPA agenda and thought it a good idea to pursue. It was the younger, what I call, second cadre of IACP leadership and the current and former Express pilots that thought ALPA would be effective and a good fit.

The Scabs were indeed promised "forgiveness" as a way to buy their votes. The same folks who were super active in IACP were still super active in the new CAL-MEC/ALPA after the merger of the two bargaining units.