I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Mesaba bankruptcy, but the judge abrogated our contract and filed an injunction against us striking. Scope was a huge issue because we had a side letter with our parent company MAIR holdings restricting the size of Big Sky(our alter ego carrier, now defunct). However, during the bankruptcy that side letter was not thrown out, instead it held up in court, the Mesaba pilots never gave in on that concession. The reason it held up in court is because scope is the legal right of workers to organize and monopolize the labor of their own company. A bankruptcy judge denying that law and giving scope relief to the company is as ludicrous as a judge trying to make murder legal in a 1113(c) process. In other words scope is NEVER on the table, it must be willingly sold. Scope relief is a denial of union CBA representation to a certain part of the pilot group.