Here's an alternative way to look at this. These guys know eher votes are the entire time, even if positions change. It must have been obvious that the NO's wouldn't prevail. Once you know you're close to 50% YES or more, if your job is to represent the Delta pilots, there is no reason not to forward this to the membership, because it's ultimately up to US to call this one.

A lot of pople are upset about this TA once they see it, but imagine how many would be outraged we would be if we didn't get the TA to even consider?

So what on earth did those guys do last week? Ask your reps how much time they spent in constructive debate, maybe engaging the company on better terms, and how much they wasted arguing against a position that all knew wouldn't prevail, and was probably moraly indefensible.

What was the gain from the four NO's, who do they benefit, and what was the price of spending a week arguing?