I like how they use the word retire after four years and with three huge open labor contracts, two of them with failed TAs.
I am guessing a forced retirement, not that I care.
Now let me don my tinfoil hat:
This is obviously a move out of the company playbook. They are hanging the sacrificial lamb. What is the next move?
An actual attempt to settle the contracts?
Throw a bone and attempt to use this to get a 51 percent solution?
Make Gary into a hero by getting rid of the bad guy and making nice with the line employees who are all less than enthused right now?

In any case, I am glad to see him go, but I am not holding my breath for a contract because he is gone. The same guys are still in charge.
See everyone in Dallas tomorrow for the 1000 man march. I'll be the guy in the white shirt.