Originally Posted by theUpsideDown

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Just to set the record straight, because lord knows what we need are more conspiracy theories, the SSP was handed to us after we fought back successfully against a 50% paycut. You can squint and call it 30%, but that's only if you ignore every FO over the 4 year mark pay being froze or cut and retrograded. The NY bankruptcy court judge told Pinnacle management at the time, they hadn't done anything except demand a pay cut lower than Gojets and the court of NY wouldn't be responsible for a race to the bottom. Delta stepped in when it was clear Pinnacle leadership was dangerously close to a negotiating in bad faith decision by the judge. To this day, that's the closest anyone in that group came to bad faith bargaining. Shortly after we had a very traditional bankruptcy style negotiation, which for Mesaba guys (the leaders and adults in the union leadership) was an old hat. We learned a lot during the first bankruptcy. Not really the first but the first for the leadership.