I loved the message from the company. Our illustrious leader sent out an email blaming the union (big surprise) for not being greedy and making a grab at the money. $500 extra per day for a duty day over 16 hours looks good on paper, except gateway travel doesn't count towards duty day (nice little gotcha for the unsuspecting pilot).
Did anyone else notice that our big boss said that they addressed certain issues but not that they had any resolution to them?
They carefully studied to see how low they could go with pay and then leave a threat on the table to intimidate the union. I know they were shaking in the boots while surrounded by the braintrust in Tulsa. Thank God, they at least saw the light and stopped TW from going to the things. I wonder why that happened, could it be that she got caught in one to many lies?
It boiled down to "here's a bunch of money for the junior pilots and we will continue to screw you on every other thing we can and have been doing." That is the companies "comprehensive package."

The main thing we have going for us this time is that that tub of lard that sold us out the last time is gone and we have good competent negotiators this time that know what we want. I really wonder how much he got paid to push that on the pilot group. Of course they aren't going to send a piece of garbage out to vote on, WE DESERVE A LOT MORE THEN THEY ARE OFFERING. This is our time to stand together and make this place a better place to work, even if it means that those sitting at a desk don't rake in all the money their greedy little hands can try to get.