It's not.

It's a red herring dreamed up by management that they expected ALPA to pass in an effort to squeeze more blood from a stone(efficiency) out of the pilots.

The machiavellian maneuver by management and served to us by ALPA would have worked had the pilots voted yes. We didn't.

Unfortunately we are still discussing the merits of this red herring. It needs to stop.

We are currently under the sick leave program management "had to have". They can live with it.

I have moved as far as I'm willing to move on sick leave.