Finally, something to talk about!
By the way, good job USAPA on the steady and methodical job of pursuing this identity theft. Just catching up...but a few points:
USAPA as a challenger to Alpa was not granted nor stole any Company data bases..in fact it was not until after the NMB election they were even (legally) given a complete mailing list..one not including SSN's. For the most part, as the NMB required, USAPA was not contacted at all by the company, other than to address NMB election issues. In the eyes of the Company/NMB USAPA was NOT the bargaining agent for the US Airways pilots. It did not exist until 18 April 08.
During the failed Alpa merger process between the two groups there was indeed a professional exchange of confidential information used to verify the..here it is..DOH and employment history of every pilot at both airlines. I was not privy to that, and I challenge anyone to cite an instance where it was used out of the legal bargaining process. Nobody from the West sent my family mailings about the Merger process using that data, or visa versa.
LEO claims now twice in the last four days that communication occurred from the Company that "all is ok." In what capacity (supposedly) is the Company addressing LEO? This is either a lie by LEO or the Company is in much deeper doo doo than a year's worth of Lifelock.
If a new card campaign were to start today, led by LEO, I would be interested to see what the NMB had to say about Management giving them a head start with these lists. But that is moot..not going to happen.
The Company was aware of the problem months ago, and somehow dealt with an entity OTHER than USAPA and gave them the big thumbs up and wink? This will get real interesting.
See you all again when Judge Silver or Kasher speaks. Meanwhile we can all enjoy one of the most East unifying and Company squirming events since the yellow lanyards graced our airports.
RR