Originally Posted by justjack

I know it is hard to understand, but when a person gives away their retirement and pay in order to save a company, seniority becomes the last stand. This is not merely a legal dilemma. It also has moral implications. So yes, the USAirways pilots must see this through to the end. The company lived to see another day, that lead to a merger (we must remain cognizant that we are referring to a merger) resulting in the very thing that was feared most- lost seniority. Add to this to the fact that the USAirways pilots have labored under a bankruptcy contract, for years, in defending this seniority. Their fellow pilots are not happy achieving with what their own airline had, what they earned, but are behaving as if the East pilots’ seniority was something to be plundered- Fellow pilots were not not considered colleagues, not brothers, not members of the same profession or union, not even human beings. Seniority was to be looted as if profits extracted as a result of the spoils of war.