First, I think you mean the NMB...not the NLRB. Second, this is pure personal opinion on your part. You don't speak for what the NMB thinks, or "the rest of the world".

I think part of your problem is that you focus on what seat you're in. You and I are doing decently, but still not world market rates for our aircraft. Where you really need to focus is the bottom two-thirds of our list where heavily experienced guys are making FAR below world market rates for the aircraft they fly. I cannot understand why you try to sugar coat this. It is inexcusable for the quality of pilot we have here to be making so far below world market rates. Inexcusable. That's the message to management. Not: "Oh Mr. Anderson, how's that whole stock buyback thing going? Anything we can do to help?"

We're not even hitting singles or doubles finis, we were afraid to leave the dugout! We got COLA pay rate increases, and that was partially funded by less profit sharing! It's not even keeping up with inflation...real inflation that is - the kind that includes food and energy. You've got to step up to the plate in order to hit a single or a double, much less a home run. Cowering in the dugout for fear of what might go wrong doesn't cut it.

Carl