AMFA 10 years ago at NWA

[bigjets]

Seniority should not take precedence over compensation, the idea is to make as much as possible and get out, not work till you die. Most of our EAL coworkers have retired, they spent most of their careers pushing for Max pay and put enough away to retire.  TWA, well they will be here till they die, while the EAL guys started they spent an extra decade giving things away at the lowest wage in the industry.  EAL guys made it to the top of the AA payscale in two years in the locations most of them ended up. TWA guys gave everything away to Ichan in hopes he would keep the carrier alive. He didn't, so now many are working till they die with at best 25% seniority (except STL). 

 
I understand Duke's post as the unions brought in who they thought would be their guy, only to have their company's sold piece by piece. And the members starting over. I'm sure you meant that our Eastern co-workers (after they had to start over at AA) have retired now, because it would be stupid to say, when Eastern closed, the employees were financially set so they could retire, so Eastern closing was no big deal. 
 
Fortunately for us, it seems like DP is working in our favor, except the NMB is holding us back from an industry leading contract.