Cant blame people for feeling ill at the prospect of not only working for the lowest wage in the industry on Christmas Day but doing it for half pay as well.
I think front line management realizes what the company has done, and they will bear the brunt of it. They backed off considerably on the OT rules, perhaps they realized that if they had arbitrated it they would have ended up with the Wallen across the system because Wallen addressed pretty much all the money items and its an arbitrated case, or they realize that they still have to work with us and get us to fix the airplanes.
My guess is they will come up with grand promises with the gain sharing plan, none of which will be kept of course, but enough so they can relieve a little pressure off the pot. Certainly not enough to justify the cap on profit sharing that guarantees that no matter how profitable AA becomes (even if they make the $3 billion a year they claimed in court) we will not make what our peers make for at least three more years (and still be working Christmas and four other Holidays for half pay, the other five for free).
Just remember what happened over the last 9 years, how the Union participated in "Working Together" which netted the company hundreds of millions of dollars and allowed them to cut more heads but when it came to negotiations the company said we get "ZERO , NOTHING" for those efforts.