Originally Posted by GunshipGuy

It doesn't sit right with me either, and I'm surprised to see the conventional wisdom here to be "bend over here it comes." I read a lot of hard nose attitudes regarding future contract negotiations, and not giving up X to get Y. So why isn't of that type of thinking prevalent when it comes to this event? In this case ALPA was found to have erred, and the result is a loss of funds we've all paid into. Yet, the sense here appears to be that mistakes will happen; so be it, let's give them more of the money we've earned and we'll go home with less.