Since the blastmail has been purged from my deleted files, and is not posted on the calalpa mec page yet, you'll have to wait for an itemization of the crap that was put out. In the meantime, please, how would your summary read?
He basically stated that we have no leverage for negotiations (false), it's not worth the effort right now (false), and that all will be better for us if we "facilitate" a merger with United first (false). I put that letter right up there with alpa's "since we can't fight age 60, let's just have some say in how it's implemented" position. At least that worked out great for our training department. Yep, it's a good thing we also saved the company from the impending bankruptcy with contract '02. It's awful nice of them to use that a starting point for negotiations as well.
You may have beaten down and find it less stressful to just eat what the company is feeding you, but some of us have too much time remaining to sit idly by. Especially when it's coming from our own "representatives"! I won't buy into the philosophy that "if rape is inevitable, just lay back and enjoy it." The rest of us will still fight for safety, pay, and quality of life improvements, and I am not willing to put that on hold waiting for a merger which may or may not happen anytime soon to magically produce an equitable contract, all the while falling further behind on inflation as the company (executives) reap the benefit of our inaction.
