Sounds like a pretty accurate synopsis of events regarding Gojet's birth. At least from the research Ive done. It sounds like TSA's union made a huge gamble by rejecting the company's new pay scale for those 70 seaters before the company went the "new certificate" route, specially knowing that they didn't have any protection whatsoever on scope and anti-whipsawing language on their current contract.
Honest question here: when the new certificate was created, did they hire all their pilots off the street for the new company or was it current TSA pilots that decided to leave TSA and head down to GoJet?