Nearly going on 5 months now and still no answers from the TWU side about the $3.1 million they got from the International.
I was recently looking though my papers. I took a brief glance at the March 3 contract propsals from the company. Across it was stamped Rejected March 4, 2003.
I noticed one thing that was not there. On this rejected proposal from the company they did not mention the $3.1 million for Company Paid UB. Was this an oversight?
Why didnt the company include the $3.1 million for Company paid UB? I feel that they held back, expecting Little to be able to sell the concessions as they were but when he failed they decided, like a master to his dog, to yank their chain a little bit to remind the Presidents who was really the Master. "Quit messing around or you can kiss your company paid UB goodbye" appears to be the message, and it worked because the agreement that we ended up with was worse than the first proposal, except for those on company paid UB of course.
I also came across the Ballot instructions, and I had to wonder when the TWU said that their "experts" have determined that a judge would likely abrogate our contract in bankruptcy, were they in fact talking about the company paid UB, or were they saying that the twenty years of concessions we had already given the company would not justify refusal our to submitt to the unprecidented demands that the company was making. Demands that niether USAIR or UAL requested from their workers?