Tony,

The NDs are on our seniority list. So are the rest of us. You don't discard 97% of the members to take care of one special group.

I could possibly understand if we lost our pension like most major airlines. We take care of senior members of our union by being responsible pilots and ensuring (to the best of our ability) that we do our part to make this company successful (and all of our pensions). We offer them special help with medical costs. Pilots over 50 on the date of signing receive a retirement multiplier based on years of service with the company.

We weren't discarding the senior members by opposing retroactivity. I've heard the comments about lawsuits(or threats of lawsuits), and I think these claims are ridiculous. Obviously NWA wasn't worried about lawsuits. These guys have "got theirs" and could have stayed on as flight engineers or take one of the best retirement packages left in the industry.

The NDs raise was paid for by the rest of us that were displaced. You call that seniority, I call it selling out the majority of us. I will not support the union until we get new leadership. I have no trust in the current regime at all. Maybe if you displaced and faced a 20-40 dollar/hour paycut you might feel the same way. Maybe not....