It was nice of the Atlass MEC to send a lackey to testify on behalf of the company at the arbitration about furloughing PFE's out of seniority this past week. I'm sure he was going to tell the arbitrator about how the Atlass crewmembers were being hurt by the Polar MEC. "we cant' get rid of Standsted, AABO, our work rules suck, etc." Fact is the Atlass crews have a most junior unfriendly contract. They have multiple classes of crewmembers; Gateway/No Gateway. They have not shown solidarity among themselves, now they demand it from a Polar pilots while reveling in the demise of Polar. All the while they sell each other out for the almighty dollar (outbasing). Poor Paul. What a no win situation for him. Testify and not help the company and he is screwed. Testify and help the company he is a scumbag to his fellow pilots. Unfortunately for him, he has to actually face his fellow pilots. Couldn't any of the two semi retired MEC members make it? You know the guys who don't even remember what the cockpit of a 747 looks like. Too busy with their outside interests? When are you going to understand that Scope is the lifeblood of a union? That is what this whole thing is about. Without the protections of scope all of the work rules, pay and benefits are meaningless. Are you going to take the word of Cato, AAWH, and DHL that everything will be Okay? Check out the history of these entities then look at this link
http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/scorpion.html. You are the frog and Cato is the scorpion.
Everyone wants a new contract, better pay, work rules etc. What you have failed to learn is that sacrifices must be made. It is hard to get what you want in this environment. Labor has few tools since the RLA is very management friendly. These arbitrations are not fun for anyone. But they are the only tool that labor has to leverage their position.
Blast away merc, looking forward to your spin on what happened this week, I'm sure you will post it as soon as Cato feeds it to your MEC.