APA has a very simple philosophy, things must be better for senior pilots and worse for junior ones. If something could possibly be construed as a win-win for the pilot group as a whole it must be modified to skew the benefits to the senior. Once one accepts this, then most of their behavior makes sense. (Following this logic, APA also has more age 67 agitators than all of ALPA combined)

On the other hand I would prefer to be furloughed for a time and return to these pay rates than keep my job at 50% as has happened in the past or worse take that cut, get furloughed anyway and have the cut still in effect when recalled. I hope that lesson from the not too distant past has been learned well.