I would respectfully disagree because 1,400+ piloys were expressly involved in arbitration overseen by Mr. Bloch. The FM1 pilots (you know, the biggest pool - 1,400 ish...with TK at the bottom) were most certainly covered by a Richard Bloch decision which predicated their return from furlough upon an economic happening - return in ridership measured over a moving 3 month period. There was some bitter irony in Bloch's ruling because the "no furlough" clause that governed at the time (from C2K) expressly excluded economic conditions as a basis to furlough, yet the return of the 1,400 was expressly predicated o an economic happening. (Lest the argument start, I am not so naive as to see that clause as intransigent - if the survival of the company is at stake, a no-furlough clause has little meaning).

Of course, while 1,400+ were out on the street, pay raises kept coming to rates well above ours today (when adjusted for 13 years of inflation) and greenslips flourished. All of that was contractually compliant but, in the view of many FM1s, ALPA kinda lost the meaning behind the unity concept of "union" during that period - when times are good, we all do good together and when times are bad, we all hurt together.