Originally Posted by
Lemonade
Here it is:
Fellow Pilots:
Negotiations under the direct supervision of NMB member Linda Puchala concluded yesterday. I will defer to the negotiating committee to provide any and all relevant details concerning those talks, we did not however, reach an agreement. We expect to hear something from the Board concerning our case, perhaps by early next week.
I have personally received several phone calls, as have many others, concerning proposed rates of pay and other details about negotiations. These reports have apparently come from the "spiritpilots" web board. Whatever is written there is FALSE. Whoever runs that board does not have accurate information. Further, those who run that web board, post on it, or actively participate in the rumormongering that takes place there, are doing this entire pilot group a disservice. If these half-wits on that board actually took the time to pick up their phone and give their REAL Leadership a simple phone call, they could actually get factual information. These people should be shunned, and treated as pariahs as they are actively seeking to undermine and destroy this pilot group. They will not succeed.
So, spread the word. If you want real information, tell people to call your true union leadership not those who hide behind internet message boards like cowards in the dark.
Thanks,
Paul XXXXXXX
SPA MEC SPSC Chairman
314 XXX-XXXX
I'd almost forgotten about that blast. And they wonder why some of us don't feel warm and fuzzy about them!
People who participate on web boards are not exactly "half-wit, pariahs". When official information is either missing or questionable, some people seek correct information from other sources. That's all. No intent to destroy Spirit ALPA exists, now nor then.
Which brings me to another point. A significant number of us feel that the direction our (SPA) ALPA has taken is not in its' or our best interest. The argument is not about union vs non-union, it's about a sustainable career. I don't believe that any one of the 800+ pilot members of SPA ALPA are anti organized pilots.
When they, the SPA ALPA leadership, label anyone who disagrees with then as "actively seeking to undermine and destroy this pilot group", they are not only wrong - they are playing politics.
For what it's worth, the information being passed on the Spirit board at that time turned out to be true if I remember correctly. Additionally, that information was all over crew rooms and jetways - having come originally from an ACY union rep - before it showed up in print.
Interested pilots, concerned pilots, we seek information. Web forums provide a valuable source of information. Unless you're one of those who says "I don't read boards, by buddy told me what he read on APC", you are reading this on a web board. Are you the random reader a "half wit", or a "pariah"? Are you actively "attempting to undermine and destroy your pilot group"?
I thought not.