Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
None of you chest-thumpers on here were willing to shut it all down when the pensions and scope were under attack. Quite the opposite, you folded like a house of cards, so it became totally obvious that NOTHING is sacred anymore, and everything was ripe for the taking...
B.S. - The problem isn't pilot whimpiness, it's USA bankruptcy laws and above all, the RLA.
These two tools give management complete and supreme power to use as needed to gut contracts and impoverish pilots. When management can unilaterally dictate pay and work rules, and our only tools (strike and/or slowdown)
are declared illegal by the courts, bought and paid for by airline executives... then we are screwed.
Unions can do very little so long as the RLA remains the law of the land. A job action is our only option to influence negotiations, and that tool has been removed from our tool chest.