I don't understand you having a problem with Bob Owens. He has looked out for the profession. Do you not remember Eastern Airlines? They (Boreman) came back time and time again getting concessions and handing money to people who were destroying the airline (sound familiar?) until the unions said no and they filed chapter 7. The TWU has been responsible for the declining pay and benefits in the airline industry. TWU ushered in B scale and SRPs, not to mention paying for medical insurance when everyone else got it free until they filed. The TWU has led by giving away hard earned pay and benefits in order to keep dues coming in so they can pay secretaries $140K a year and live high on the hog while their members have to refinance their houses and cut their monthy budgets. If this is the leadership you want then you already have it. Bob Owens tells the truth and doesn't pull punches. Just watch how Jim Little "Fights like hell" to save your pay and benefits. He'll sell us out like he did in 2003. He sold us out with the last TA but we wouldn't buy it. Another poster here has used BOHICA in his posts and that is what we all need to do now that Whoreton is calling the shots. He has already used the "We're in this together" line. If that one sounds familiar Ourpay used it too. Will Whoreton and his cronies take a pay cut? Will they lose their retirement? You bet they won't. We are not in this together and there will be no sharing the pain just like before. We'll get the pain and they'll get the gain. This will not be Bob Owen's fault or mine or yours. It will be Ourpay and Whoreton and all the other pirates that occupy offices at HDQ.Are you serious???? A good leader is someone who looks out for the profession and the men and women who work in that profession. Wow, now there will be thousands of our people in the profession working out of their truck, making less wages with no benefits, etc. Right on, thats great for our profession. Oh by the way, a good leader also speaks in time of crisis, not hiding as we have not heard from Bob, who by the way has health insurance as his wife is a nurse. Did he look out for his members, I think not.