I thought that too, then I went to a road show. They were some (not all, but some) very actively whitewashing the TA. They were dismissing concerns, real concerns. "Well the intent of that is..." "Well, technically that could happen, but the company won't do that because staffing levels will improve."

Honestly, I was incredibly disappointed that they were the ones representing the pilot group.

They shouldn't have been there dismissing concerns, they should have been giving us the solutions that they developed because they saw those same weaknesses and took steps to mitigate them.

If you had interspersed management in to the panel, you wouldn't have been able to tell which ones were the union and which ones were the company trying to defend and sell the TA.