Sure he is. But, like others in management he's made a big mistake. Not sure how he did it, because when my chief sends me an email, my email adress is blocked out, and it says "private" in the adress field.

Perhaps he needs some remedial MS outlook training.

it was his error that caused this to happen. You are always going to have guys trying to gig their union reps, or shine a different light on things. I wonder if there was anyting in the ML that actually helped the process..............

You could turn a fleet of aicraft carriers faster then you can turn ALPA. This pilot or pilots broke no rules, other than just playing a good practical joke on his union reps and using management as the lever.