Why? Because you say so? We should ignore the literal words of the press release in favor of something you think may happen?

In fact, the structure of the the offer is one that offer's a far greater incentive to those with a lot of seniority vs those who are newer. If we assume that many of these might be technician jobs under a union contract where more years of service equals higher pay, they could have more senior workers take the package, immediately hire new employees and save a decent amount of money.

Granted, I've only seen that strategy in practice with municipal workers, but it makes no more assumptions than you do.