Originally Posted by
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that would be interesting. just as an example say we had "won" in 2012 the right to sell their vacations and fly. some go balistic on here and DALPA says "fine, here you go here's the survey results and 55% of the pilot group had demanded just that and it was a legit "win."
what would you say if you were in disagreement? "Well if that's what the pilots wanted, I guess I should shut up."
Would that be the wise way to handle that? Should you lay down your convictions because you lose a vote?
I don't think it is.
You should most definitely not lay down your convictions because you lose a vote. You should indeed try to win in the marketplace of ideas, and do your best to persuade others to see your point of view, and hopefully they will be convinced by your reasoning so that it becomes their point of view.
However, what you should also not do is label anyone who does not share your convictions as somehow inherently wrong (i.e. "there is my point of view, and then there is the wrong one").
Some things are easy to label as wrong, such as scabbing, because they ARE detestable.
Other things, such as this work rule or that, sometimes just break down to a difference of opinion, and as I told my wife once, just because we have a difference of opinion doesn't render that some counseling-worthy drama! Sometimes it is just that--two decent, reasonable people have a different opinion on a subject, and they can agree to civilly disagree.