You are such a good roll model. :rotfl:
You will learn more (good and bad) from listening than you will from talking, and that goes for all of us.
But the reaction to my viewpoint suggests that there is a certain thread of thought that has been "inbred" into this website, and perhaps across the aviation community as a whole. May I respectfully suggest that it is not only I that should heed your suggestion?
I have a hard time swallowing the notion that Management is paying someone to deceive us all on the Interwebs. Call me a rube. They're way too busy deciding how to pump and dump the next IPO.
It's obvious that I bring a different viewpoint to the table. But the reaction to my viewpoint suggests that there is a certain thread of thought that has been "inbred" into this website, and perhaps across the aviation community as a whole. May I respectfully suggest that it is not only I that should heed your suggestion?
You would be amazed at how much time management spends focused on these kinds of web boards. Pinnacle management frequently reads just about every forum out there. AirTran management has actually copied posts from Flightinfo for use in disciplinary arbitrations. Don't ever believe that management doesn't pay a lot of attention to internet forums, and yes, even post anonymously. They aren't as busy with true business decisions as you give them credit for.
I would suggest that you provide information about your background if you want people here to respect your views on these subjects. If you're a student pilot, a weekend warrior, or anyone else not exposed for a lengthy period of time to labor/management relations at an airline, then you should probably leave these topics to the people that live it. Right now your profile just shows you as a student C172 pilot. Not exactly someone that should be debating a bunch of airline pilots about airline issues.
"You would worry less about what other people think of you if you realized how seldom they do" - David Foster Wallace.
I have a hard time swallowing the notion that Management is paying someone to deceive us all on the Interwebs. Call me a rube. They're way too busy deciding how to pump and dump the next IPO.
From a webmaster's perspective, you bet your sweet patootie that corporations plant people into social media and they would be idiots not to!
I admire the FO coming here and laying out his story. I would be particularly interested in him coming here and explaining his experiences with co-workers and others since his flight. I wonder if there has been any fall-out in real life and not just on interweb message boards?
Depends on what the striking union designates as struck work. An MEC may demand that other employees not cross its lines. That's rare, though. Typically the struck work definition will only include the employees of that craft and class. In the specific case you mention at NWA, AMFA did not ask anyone else to honor their lines.
Your leadership got just what they asked for.
Their leadership is elected.
To quote Winston Churchill, "...democracy is the worst form of government, expect for all those others forms that have been tried."
A great relief to the families of those who, through no fault of their own, have been sold out by one Interest to another Interest, no doubt.
PS. Last time I checked, the leadership of publicly traded corporations was "elected", too.
A great relief to the families of those who, through no fault of their own, have been sold out by one Interest to another Interest, no doubt.
PS. Last time I checked, the leadership of publicly traded corporations was "elected", too.
A great relief to the families of those who, through no fault of their own, have been sold out by one Interest to another Interest, no doubt.
PS. Last time I checked, the leadership of publicly traded corporations was "elected", too.
I don't think anyone is "sold out" in situations such as this. Leaders simply made bad decisions. The same could be said of the PATCO strike in '81.
You know as well as I do that those elections are a sham.