Originally Posted by Pkcola

Why did I know you were going to come back with a long "one beer too many induced RANT" - it is Labor Day. I was going to rebut each point but then realized you would likely not remember why you uttered most of it and waste my time. Few points though.

We are labor and live and die by the senority system. Without it we'd be working for RJ wages as management played one against the other.

My supports falls on the side of Union representation and today, that's ALPA. Our youngest and brightest work within that framwork and not in a flight office to achieve good results for the pilots.

You desire to give Jeff and Jeff like management free rein to modify or violate our contract is a mistake. We are stakeholders and not share holders. His decision to pay billions to the share holders are at the expense of all employees(stakeholders) will come back to haunt us when the economy turns south or DL and AA decide to move away from capacity restrictions. Jeff put our airline and jobs at risk to protect his job. That's the guy you want to follow?

Pay banding does nothing for pilot productivity or manning. Don't know where you came up with that stuff.

You didn't answer the simplest of questions. You stated "we have profit sharing as a back-stop". Would you tell us YOUR average profit sharing over the last 5 years and what you expect in profit sharing over the next 5 years.