FWIW...(admittedly my opinion isn't worth a lot)...I tend to side with Whataburger, and trust management. To automatically assume that our management is like all other managements, whose express goal is to outsource our livelihoods, is to automatically cave in on our cooperative spirit and to become just like all the other airlines in mindset. Who then first betrays the trust?
I prefer to assume that most pilots who are hired here, believe that there is something worth working for here, that has been lost at most, if not all the other airlines...a shared interest (management/employee) in producing a great product through hard work, which benefits us all through a more secure livelihood, pay and benefits, profit sharing and self esteem.
That being said, there's always a time and place to go into the "distrust" mode, if and when management demonstrates that they aren't to be trusted. I feel that our management is all too well aware of the dangers of losing the trust of it's employees, and knows that once that trust has been violated, it would be impossible to retrieve.
