At one point management wanted out of the flow. We could have offered a solution based on unity.

But, at the end of the day we might just have to undo what created Compass in the first place. Our predecessors traded jobs for credits which were applied to saving pensions. Perhaps the pension money needs to be taken back and applied to jobs. I know that earned me a turd in the flight case, but how fair is it to trade one pilot's career progression for another pilot's retirement? This cross subsidization of favored pilots at the expense of others has got to stop somewhere.

Besides as we trade away more and more jobs, ALPA as a union becomes less and less powerful. We become less and less relevant. That harms our ability to negotiate for 767 Captains and DC9 FO's alike.

It is a matter of priorities. Once we put a for sale sign on member's jobs the discussion then becomes, who do we sell? About anything can be justified based on economics.

We fail to think ahead to the next round of negotiations. Once traded away, scope is gone. So a scope sale benefits us for exactly one round. It harms our interest in the next round. The result is that scope is a leading indicator for contractual results in other areas. Sell scope = harder to get leverage in the next negotiation = continued negative trend line in pay and benefits.