Here's my take: you're operating from the assumption that UAL ALPA actually wants us back! It's what they say, but their actions to date have certainly indicated otherwise. What good does it do them to get us back on property? A bunch of ****** on, ****ed off pilots who represent a pretty big voting block that will just make trouble in the future? It's probably better for them to just go get new hires who haven't been scorched (yet). I don't buy for one second the rhetoric that has flowed from every MEC chairman since 2001. If they wanted us back, we'd be back. This JCBA will effectively make it so unappealing to return that they will cut our numbers in half, probably more.