Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
I am not dredging up a decade-old argument, but let's get real. NO MATTER WHAT the union did, including "simply distributing" as you claim, there would have ALWAYS been a faction who complained about it.
God could craft the money distribution and there would have been complaints. It is the nature of distributing a large amount of money. Why do you think estate attorneys will never be in the unemployment line?
During the distributions legal actions were filed by several different sections of the seniority list.
The very most senior filed saying that the junior got benefits they hadn't earned (FAE inflated so everyone's was at IRC limits in one portion of the note calculation). They lost.
A mid grade guy filed a New York Human Rights commission complaint saying that the senior and the junior got to much.
A LTD pilot filed saying that the silos in the claim cost him money, even though the concessions of LOA-50/51 didn't reduce his benefit. As pointed out in the thread, his complaint was dismissed (he was going to law school at the time).
NWA had Tanksley (over 2000 in the class) over their targeted distribution methodology that benefited the junior.
That's off the top of my head. I know there were more, and threats of a lot more. Wherever there's money, pilots fight over it. Your point nailed it.