The Polar MEC and negotiating committee have been in an ongoing battle to fend off Cato's tireless efforts to erode the Polar CBA since the day AAWH acquired Polar.
How so? What erosion? What have they done?
The Atlas pilot group has been the benefiting recipient of Cato's work in that they are now flying a good percentage of Polars flights on a daily basis in violation of the Polar scope protections.
Again, how so? Polar does not have the aircraft to fly half of what they "claim" is their flying. In fact the Polar MEC claimed that if they ever flew any routes or landed at any airports anywhere in the world then it was "their" flying and not Atlas's. Simple ingnorance of the world of business.
The Atlas MEC has been gutless in going after the rights of the Atlas pilots for a new CBA and better terms on its existing CBA.
Impossible to do in light of the fact that the company says there is a merger; arbitrator Harris said there was a merged list; even ALPA now agrees that there is a merger - the company refused to negotiate with only one group - especially in light of how they were screwed by the Polar MEC when they violated the back to work agreement after their ill conceived strike.
In fact when the Atlas MEC realized that the Polar MEC could/should prevail in its scope fight, they (in conjunction with AAWH management) put together a successful effort to extort ALPA into submission by threatening to go Teamsters.
Bovine Scat! The company had nothing to do with the Teamsters push. It was all Atlas pilots who were sick of dealing with a national union who continually favored one pilot group over another when they were supposed to be neutral.
I am embarrassed to be a part of a union with the likes of the Atlas union leadership and to anyone who would have the cohones to insinuate that all of the history is somehow the fault of the Polar MEC and Negotiating committee for not bowing to management.
Guess it is time to quit then.
The reasons for the resignations were multi-faceted, the abandonment of ALPA National in standing up for the rights of the minority pilot group, the selection of a very inexperienced Atlas negotiator to chair the combined negotiating committee in lieu of a dual or neutral chairmanship proposed by the Polar group,
hahahahahahaha now THAT is really funny - you mean experience negotiating the SALT II treaty is not negotiation experience. You have just proven how clueless you are. The Atlas negotiator has ten time the experience that Hair does.
the obvious bad blood created by the small group who spew misinformation on this website in order to subdue the minds of the ill informed,
Hopefully you are including yourself in that category.
... strong and resolved as the Polar MEC and Committee
don't forget ill educated and ill informed - do they still think that "revenue" is better than "profits?"
The last thing Hair did is tried once again to negate arbitrator Harris ruling by asking to have Polar pilots move up into slots created by retirements and resignations. Does he REALLY think we are that stupid. It is high time he left. He and Bobb cost both groups MILLIONS of dollars in bargaining power all to protect a scope clause that is going to be renegotated anyways. Spin it however you want - this debacle can be laid right at their feet.