I didn't create our system of lopsided compensation and I never said anything about brotherhood. That is all just sentimental crap.
When a few hundred pilots (some hired less than a year before me) are pulling down $170,000 a year and I'm selling my house - then I'm not inclined to just go with the flow.
Representation is nothing more than a business deal. Sometimes it's about safety, sometimes it's about getting beat up by scheduling, sometimes it's about leveling the playing field, sometimes people get taken to the cleaners, and sometimes people do the right thing. Etc, etc, etc.
But I have never believed that it was about togetherness.
This is not a social club, it's not church, and it's not a dating service. It's where I intend to meet my long-term financial expectations.
If we could take a peek at some of the administration's contracts, I'm sure that the legal language in those documents would drive home that fact.