If it is any consolation, Chip was preaching the same thing to the pilots on the alpa boards prior to his temporary banning from those boards for his actions (Clt news article etc.)
We paid him no attention.....why do you?
I do not know of a single pilot (other than Chip)that said or thought that you should do anything other than what you thought was right for your group. (CWA, IAM)
That said, This pension issue is extreamly important to the pilots still active since we have so many over 50. At 60 they must quit, forever. Pilots do not have the option of going past 60, and there is the problem. I am young enough that I can start over at a new airline and still get enough years in for a decent retirement, most of our guys cannot. The last round of furloughs cut to the 15 years senority level. Most of the people getting ready to lose their retirement have close to 30 years with the company.
I do not like the possibility of this arline going ch-7 but at the same time I am not about to tell a 30 year guy (Pilot, mechanic, or whoever)how to handle problems such as these. I hope that something can be done.
As far as Daves "Promise" that there will be a new retirement plan.......nobody has seen it. And considering the track record he has with all unions, would you take him at his word if it were the IAM or CWA that he was talking to?