A thought or two. KT says it may be possible to do retirement outside of the contract. This is a major point of his if we say yes to the TA. Our chairman, CD, just said that was highly unlikely. The only way I see retirement outside of section 6 is if the company saves more money via that method. Wouldn't that be silly of us to give away money in retirement without gaining something back somewhere else? But, who knows, it could happen.

KT's argument implies to me that all the other MEC votes directing the NC were unanimous. I say this because I can see a MEC member voting NO now wasn't on board the entire time.

He also proposes chaos would ensue at the union. I disagree. I followed the Delta forums closely. They have a lot (huge amount more) of anger at their MEC and a good portion of them prior to their TA wanted to leave ALPA. To say that the same chaos would happen here is unlikely. The only recall I have heard anything about here is CC trying to recall MA the block 11 representative! MA is against the TA, not a yes rep being recalled! I think the NC would step down, but I don't think we would have other chaos recalls and such moving forward.

But, all of this is pure guesswork. Do you want to live for a decade under this TA? Vote yes. Don't want to, vote No. Let the experts take us forward either way. We are all in the cheap seats.