Before we had a contract, 90% of the FPA membership voted to strike. That included alot of senior pilots and of course the junior pilots. We had a failure of leadership then but the point is there are plenty of pilots here willing to do the right thing for the group. Unfortunately, given the opportunity some among us would not but I know from personal experience not to color the whole group with that brush.

That said, this thread has gotten far afield from the first post which indicated we had bad language inserted into our contract which placed the jobs of our junior pilots at risk. We need to make sure our next contract doesn't give more of our protections away for salary. It didn't work at Delta and it doesn't work here. The first ALPA TA (1995) actually had pretty decent pay rates but was voted down (thankfully) because the pilots actually read the d@#$ thing and saw it gave away our vacation, workrules, substitution, deviation rights and more in exchange. The first FPA TA suffered a similar fate.

Bad negotiating is not improved by apathetic pilots.