Any body that works here knows the flow vote was in Oct to go into effect in Jan. Not "a month or so ago." Also, people who work here realize that when the negotiations were going on, our number of AA hires, under the SSP, got worse. The "flow" benefited everyone. Should we have gotten more? Absolutely, but the guys negotiating the flow didn't want to ruin their soon to be easy path to AA. Had we said no to the flow, all the pilots for the last 5 months wouldn't have gone to AA because the SSP didn't require anyone to actually get hired. Would we have said no to additional flow? Probably as one more a month doesn't really shorten anyone's time under all the other contract violations. Too many things have been passed with the promise from management to revisit them later and that they will have to get better. Not once have they come through even when it's obviously needed. Recruiting and retention are the companies problem and this joke of a bonus won't solve it. My problem is getting the company to match the rest of the industry. We were on par two years ago. We aren't anymore. If we shut down most pilots on property can go somewhere else and make more money. Hell a lot of us are considering it anyway as oppossed to the assumptions on here that no one would leave.