CallmeJB,
I don't work for Atlas and all of your reasoning sounds good on the surface but you didn't address captains not picking up open time. If captains don't fly open time the company can not easily train more if they are flat out on training already. You have to take FO's off line for several weeks which requires new hires to replace them. All this has to be done by working around required recurrent training. At least for a short period of time I would think that the company would be significantly hindered in their ability to fill trips. Regardless of what precipitates it I hope that all the employees working for your holding company soon receive the contract you deserve.