If there are a limited number of opportunities and a requirement to make a large portion of those opportunities available to a favored class, there will be fewer opportunities for those who do not enjoy a special status.

It is a zero-sum game.

This is one reason why I believe the agreement is a violation of the Delta pilots' contract. The Delta pilots negotiated preferential interviews for ALPA members who had lost their jobs due to no fault of their own and those pilots who had reciprocated by providing an opportunity for Delta pilots who similarly might lose their employment.

Pinnacle / Endeavor re-ordered this language to favor their own, senior, employed, Captains without reciprocity to Delta pilots.

The Company (and ALPA's) violations of the Delta Pilot Working Agreement aren't all that enforceable without ALPA leading the charge (which they clearly are not going to do, after all ALPA's President signed off on the unilateral [change][conflicting language] to the Delta PWA). Concomitantly currently employed Delta pilots have not lost anything of value. Mostly these provisions were designed to promote unity. When they were attacked the harm is to unity. The corollary is the lowering of standards, compensation and working conditions - which is always the result of disunity. Pinnacle did this, now some of their pilots must live with the results.

It is difficult to prove disunity lowers the profession while such negotiations are taking place ... but the trend lines are obvious in retrospect.