Okay, you have a point that their "opinions" regarding an arbitrations outcome are prejudiced.
But, take a step back. My opinion is prejudiced, I know it, but I have read LOA93 and my opinion is the best you could hope for is a re-instatement of the 3% annual increase. I really think you are going to get nada. Your contract became amendable, nothing else. And, rather than amend your contract, you decided to stall negotiations and hold out on a long shot that your prejudiced opinion thinks is a winner.
I also highly doubt that Isom's sole source of info on this is Hemenway, and that the discussion is probably less along on the lines of the overly simplistic, do you think we are going to win, but more on the lines of how bad do you think the east pilots are going to be when we do win, and what can we do to protect ourselves (and our bonuses)from usapa and any east pilots that react to their loss on this thing inappropriately.
He probably got the answere to that question from legal who advised, well with the way things stand right now, you could tell all the employees to ditch the gang colors, then get an injunction over usapa's illegal slowdown, then when any of the malcontents cause trouble following their LOA93 loss, you have a court backed injunction to start firing at will.
But, maybe you are right and all Isom knows is a prejudiced opinion that Hemenway says it is in the bag.
I think Isom's statement is just propaganda, probably drawn from the Glass playbook. We're in a battle....the enemy tries to tell us to give it up, the war is lost. They don't have a clue any better than you or I have.
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