Jesus Christ,
We worry about negotiating in public but are willing to trash our union and fellow pilots over a 5% holdback of a signing BONUS that was forced by the courts to set aside possibly (probably) aggrieved servicemen and women in our ranks?

Two consecutive contracts placing us on top of the pile and guys are willing to sh1t over everything for $975... that may belong to one of our brothers or sisters who were, u know, fighting a war and got shafted for it? You guys know it's a pay cut to go fight, right?

Final question for the OP: Who exactly do you expect to go and get that money out of the bank and why do you think they aren't getting it?