The ONLY reason AMC pays it is because they want to, not because the lost any law suit, and in doing so, they compensate unionized pilot's differently; pots wh apparently negotiated their own terms outside the union's sole representation designation. Who needs a union now if you can negotiate on your own for a special subset of class and craft employees under the RLA!
The "union" has don a disservice to the rest of their members here by not stepping in and declaring their sole representation rights!