As one of the ~10,000 or so in the stack waiting on an interview at UAL, let me point out it would have been far cheaper for Goodwin to hire some more of us than count on overtime.
Yes, it probably was an organized refusal. ALPA has the cheek to believe a pilot should be able to make a decent wage WITHOUT coming in on his days off.
It's interesting to me - send an offshore oil worker to a rig for 14 days, and the world agrees he deserves 14 days off. Sent a UAL pilot on a 14 day trip, and he is living so luxuriously he should work some overtime, for his country, you know.