There are a lot of things in various airline contracts that cover these types of issues, however often they are willfully ignored by individual MEC's in exchange for other considerations. Gunter brings up a very salient point. What would happen if the MEC offered us a vote on furloughs vs. BLG reductions or some other incentive? History isn't on the potential furloughee's side in this arena across the industry-i.e. expect rationalizations, endless rationalizations if such a scenario were to occur.