Then it would have been someone else that did it to me.

Not my team. Not the guys who represent me. Can you really not see the difference?

And for the record, my uncle was a 570'r at UAL. He had not even completed training when he walked out with the group and was fired. It took a few years and a side letter but they got his job back, with original date of hire. So yes, new hires get the full weight of the union behind them.