Beechjet:
Everyone get's the same worn out message. Polar has done nothing wrong and was always right. Atlas and the industry are all wrong. So there's no sense reminding you how your MEC volunteered to cross our picket lines in '02. How Boobie said in '03 that 250-300 Polar job losses were "acceptable collateral damage" for him to never wear an Atlas uniform. How he demanded that Polar be allowed to negotiate a contract first in '05. And he caved in on you. How he attacked the very people who were the only ones in the industry to support you. And how he used Prater in '07 and '08 to block the JCBA. And how he used over one million dollars of ALPA members hard earned dues money paying Dan Katz to represent Polar on greivance arbitrations that legally should have been handled by ALPA Legal, not Dan Katz. The same ALPA Legal that told Prater they had no merit and exposed ALPA to a DFR from Atlas pilots for the harm being caused. (and Katz blew anyway) That's a million bucks ALPA could sure use now.
So it all moves to the IBT and Boobie starts up the Victrola again at the first meeting in ILM. Armed with his flightbag of revisionist history that no one would take three days to listen to. Then to DC, accusing IBT of nefarious deeds. Their legal department got the docs and reviewed them because the Airline Division recused themselves so Boobie wouldn't be able to scream coverup; he did anyway.
IBT Legal said there was no merit. Yet, your leadership keeps beating the drum and dragging their knuckles.
Tell you what. And I say this with all sincerity. If you, and collectively the Polar pilots REALLY want to get something positive done, tell BK to quit throwing sand in the gearbox. The merger is done. No "special rights" for Polar if any part of the airline ever gets sold. Why? Because the pilots don't own it.
There could have been a much better deal in '07. And '08. Fact is, the JCBA could have been voted upon. Your comment that it was signed away is pure fallacy. Truth is, your leadership said flat out they would reject any JCBA; meaning it would go to arbitration. Had they not been so incompetent, there could have been a strong CBA and we'd likely be renegotiating it now.
So seriously, if you really want to make this work and get something decent; understanding that what was "leaked" could have been used for leverage for something better..until it was leaked..tell BK to stop negotiating in public.
Because at the end of the day, the only careers that he will screw up are yours. And he hasn't got that right.