It's just instructive to remind pilots that in the eyes of mgmt (all mgmt at all airlines) that you are really just necessary "expensive" labor and although the path to achieve the quals/job are much lengthier and the scope of duties is much more consequential, in mgmt's eyes your still just expensive labor, no different than the plumbers that work on the terminal, or the janitors that clean the HQ buildings.

Sometimes, newer pilots tend to see themselves as different or separate from other labor groups at the airline, but this is a reminder that in Mgmt's eyes, this is not so and you get what you negotiate for, not what you think is deserved.

Delta's VP (now CEO) during the BK hearing said something to the effect that "he lays awake at night wondering if he'd taken enough out of the pilots contract" to make it a go after BK. After that transcript was published, for the next decade he has/was known as "sleepy Ed" by the pilots.