Originally Posted by Barley

Under the worst economic downturn airlines have ever seen? I’m not sure what you’re expecting beyond someone handing you a massive check in a sustained depressed revenue environment? But hey I get it, many of you have squandered decades of retirement savings and furthermore financed your lives away. Best for your denial of personal accountability to manufacture a fantasy about how making no attempt to prevent at least 3900 furloughs is a great union move for the self-serving gain of playing catch-up on your own mistakes.

I’m not trying to make your personal financial situation my business, but it’s certainly the over-arching theme I’m seeing from naysayers. I don’t wish a difficult situation on anyone, but the root of reason from the loudest folks seems to be the same: Produce fear with no articulated proof beyond conjecture and baseless assumptions that hold no bearing in reality with the objective of self-serving means.

I hate all this just as much as anyone, but one thing is for sure.. If this TA fails I will never hold a grudge against a single person who voted against it. It was a choice, we voted, the group’s voice spoke. End of story. On the flipside I worry that if it passes the childish comments and irrational anger will last the rest of some of your careers. I hope I’m wrong.

Best of luck..