On November 9, AA flight attendants, by 16 votes, surprisingly rejected the "Tentative Agreement," a contract that had been in various stages of negotiation for over two years. This contract was a derivative of the "Conditional Labor Agreement" (CLA). Post-bankruptcy, AFPA president Laura Glading began a series of clandestine meetings with AA CEO Doug Parker and President Scott Kirby. The ostensible goal for Ms. Glading was to recapture much of the over $4 billion in previous forgone compensations. The "Tentative Agreement" ostensibly would have recouped an annual $193 million but that was spread over the combined 25,000 U.S. Air and American flight attendants, not just the 16,000 from American Airlines. With no statistical backup, flight attendants were told that if they rejected the "Tentative Agreement" they would be forced into arbitration and would receive $82 million annually less than the "Tentative Agreement". If this was really true, why did workers reject this contract?