Dan, you have NEVER been to a union meeting so how would you even know? However, I am more than willing to set the record straight with the FACTS. MOU I did not have retro pay in it. Period. I happen to know exactly what transpired between Roland and MOU I because both he and I were at the CLT domicile meeting a year ago and he was of the opinion that we need to vote this in and "get a better deal later". FACT. So we sit on less pay until a JCBA was negotiated. With the company already violating the MOU we have now just what do you think it would have been like with the original MOU?
So I called Dewitt Ingram the other day and I asked him exactly what happened behind the scenes. You guys can say what you like about Dewitt but the one thing he has NEVER done is blow his own horn, which is why I called him. I asked him exactly why MOU II came about. First, it was apparent that no one in their right mind was going to vote for MOU I that BOTH GARY AND ROLAND negotiated with NAC drafting help. That was at the meeting in CLT. The pressure put on the Union and the BPR by Jack Butler, who was the Bankruptcy lawyer for the unsecured creditors committee, gave the union and the BPR a 24 hour deadline to approve the MOU I. It was Dewitt who came up with the idea that, if the company would grant retrospective pay back to when the MOU II gets approved the BPR would give it unanimous approval. Dewitt told me that, based on HIS many years of negotiating with both real estate and vehicles, it helps to give up something that has no value to us but has immense value to the other side. Jack was ECSTATIC! You see, whether the BPR sent MOU II out with unanimous approval or majority vote still ends with the same result.... it goes out to the rank and file. But one thing is FOR SURE.... Pete Dugsted and Joe Stein had NO PART in the solution put forth by DeWitt. NONE. This was entirely a CLT solution.
Dan, you can sit back in the "cheap seats" with Chip and lob hand grenades but i will point out that the lies you and your master Chip put out their are just that. LIES. Gary Hummel has been a part of this "leadership" team since his fiasco as EVP. Gary is a poor communicator and a poor leader. What is VERY disappointing is Steve Bradford LETS HIM DO IT. The Ballot committee is quitting and Streble is giving up because of the leadership, or the lack thereof, who has NO support. There is still more to come with seniority and especially with the JCBA negotiations. Say what you want about DiOreo and McKee. I certainly have my differences with Bill but it is these two that are not grinding an axe against Gary. They are trying to preserve some semblance of negotiating logic with a still to be made document called the JCBA with APA.
I'm going back to AB Captain next month. Be ready Dan.... gear up.
