The company was in violation 5 months in. The contract was unenforceable and not enforced.

If you built a ship. That ship began sinking 5 months in with the loss of 1,200 customers, would it make any sense to take credit for the good deal some got on life rafts? ... It failed. It was not enforced. The resolution was billions in concessions. It was a failure.

The principal cause of that failure was a lack of unity; allowing Delta to run airlines within airlines where the company could shift flying and destroy parts of the company while keeping customer-facing flight operations mostly intact.

Back to the topic of this thread; everyone I know is casting a strike vote with extreme prejudice. We actually want to walk. The motivation isn't necessarily the Section 6 process, it is global scope. Similar to C2K the MEC is resolving a scope failure a re-write to get the company into compliance. Sure, pay rates are an issue, but some of us are so angry about continued and continuing bad faith in scope that we really can not see ourselves voting yes for anything.

This political reality is a problem for all involved. Lorenzo left the airline business after continued evidence of his bad faith made it impossible for him to get any deal done with labor.