oldmako

I think Heppner just chambered a round. I also think there's a good chance its a dud.

LeeMat

That good will and cooperation has been bought and paid for!

oldmako

No question that was something many were concerned about at the time. I'd like to think that this was a joint effort, but I haven't seen any meaningful evidence of working together at this point. Hence my cynicism.

757Driver

I'm not referring to your MEC, I'm referring to the responses above from your own Pilots. I love the message that was just put out and as I said above, I'll be there every day of the week to strike with you guys.

Glad to see you participated in the '85 strike and if you didn't read about it, we had one too. Yours turned out one hell of a lot better than ours did but we still have plenty of guys still around who were out on strike for 2 full years. Thats a glaring fact that unfortunately seems to get lost amongst all the scab tales. How long were you out for?

We've got plenty of guys who struck, we also have plenty of guys who wear the star from Eastern. We hear you loud and clear but please stop discounting us. Yes we have a lot of scabs but they're down to around 10% of us or less so please keep that in mind when you're about to launch into a strike lecture. The overwhelming majority of us will be with you, picket signs proudly in hand.

SpecialTracking

I'm sure most cal pilots are fed up with Smizek. Question of the day is, is Little Lord Jay? What does he have to gain?

Lerxst

Remember that Pierce said on 3/12 EXACTLY what the J(oint)NC put out less than a week later. The "J" means that your guys on the JNC Honeycutt(sp?) and Phil Otis also felt that things were going well as of late.

It was Heppner's message on 3/16 that was at complete odds with what had been recently put out by the CAL MC AND the JNC.

I like Heppners message on this, but BOTH SIDES need to get some comm discipline and put out ONE MESSAGE if they want the troops to fall in line instead of looking around saying ***!

There was no coordination on today's message between the MEC's from what my Rep just confirmed.

13n144e

Completely agree. Why didn't both MEC's put out a message at the same time?
I thought (perhaps mistakenly) that the JNC initiated release, in other words it's a joint decision. Can a single MEC request release on it's own initiative?

Slammer

X2...my EWR rep ( no coordination between MECs)...

Pilotbiffster

See, your response pretty much summarizes why all the smart-ass comments against the CAL group. "Really doesn't bode well for you" ??
Like , you and the 735 CAL scabs are gonna keep the airline running ?
Rather than say "it doesn't bode well for YOU", you should be saying, "doesn't bode well for co-worker Jeff". We'll be taking pictures if you turn a wheel.

Pilotbiffster

Brother, I'll walk shoulder to shoulder with you. You're the kinda CAL pilot I'd like to fly with.

Frats

Robert