Originally Posted by Check Essential

You can't say you weren't warned.
We gave up hundreds of jobs in this last contract. Maybe 1000 jobs. Maybe more.
We agreed to years of stagnation in exchange for a modest pay bump.
Raising the ALV. Making July and August into 30 day months. Running reserves to ALV +15. More and bigger regional jets. More codeshares and joint ventures. Etc. etc. etc. All of that killed any advancement for a long time to come.
I'm sure sailingfun will be along shortly to tell us all is well but the facts speak for themselves. Our list is shrinking and we are mostly going backwards.

Here was your warning ---

APC L&G post #97988 from May 6, 2012 right after the first Negotiator Notepad came out telling us we were giving "productivity" concessions in Contract 2012: