Oh please. Pointing out that Alaska has historically had a weak pilot group and that the only way to fix our contract is to gut it and start over is "Psy Ops?" I'd say he's got a point, but that's just me.
"Resolve" is just an ambiguous buzzword that the MEC throws around that doesn't mean anything specific - it's football coach talk. Resolve to what? Resolve to seek what specific outcome? I don't doubt this group's collective anger. I DO, however, very much doubt this group's ability to know good work rules if they sat on their face, let alone care about them enough to vote down a TA that doesn't include them. And that, like GearBoy said, is the test of true "resolve" - if we're served a TA that doesn't meet or raise the industry bar across the board can we recognize that we're stuck in the same loop as we always have been, can we break the cycle of milquetoast improvements that just enable the current system instead of forcing real changes, etc. And for a group of 3000, many of whom haven't worked at airlines other than Alaska or are comfortably senior or are otherwise out of touch with the industry, that's a lot harder than just all being mad about stuff.

I will absolutely withhold judgement until a TA is reached, and I will read that TA critically and try to see it in its totality but I haven't got much reason to be terribly optimistic at this point. Most people I fly with are unconcerned about the lackluster (to put it charitably) Section 25 improvements in the Term Sheet. If we end up with a TA that only perpetuates that terrible reserve rules here albeit with some minor improvements, and perpetuates the company's ability to treat line holders like reserves, it will be because this pilot group didn't have the resolve to demand more. And if it passes, it will be because we didn't have the resolve to vote it down.