You are absolutely right that if United goes out of business and parks 695 jets and cancels 500 more then nobody will have a job. I completely agree. You guys are so fancied with express while throwing out the baby and the bathwater. United work is your bread and butter, start getting more than 7 stations under scope, then it would be nice to gain some permanent express work as well but you did neither.
Here is another scenario, This TA passes, then United doesn't pull any mainline out of any stations at all and you lose all mainline work in 90%+ of stations [83 out of 90 stations]. Now, because you try to manufacture consent that seniority protections are scope, you may be able to get enough members to vote for it. But seniority protections are only seniority protections. They are engaged when folks get pink slips and have to make a choice to take furlough or transfer. The only thing you have done is made sure that the company at least gives 15 year employees a full time choice with the 1999 seniority protections. But aren't seniority protections already covered in your contract with displacement procedures? I mean, can't a 15 year employee already bump a junior employee? So what good is a 1999 seniority protecton for someone who already has enough seniority to bump to another station anyways? The folks who need seniority protections are junior employees but none of them are protected whatsoever.
