Originally Posted by
NAAPilot1
The company need only read a handful of pages of this to realize they've got us almost exactly where they want us. Division and infighting is exactly what they want leading up to negotiations.
I'm pretty new here, but have some experience with negotiations and a pilot strike in my past. It's time now to elect our new leadership, get involved, and decide as a group what is important moving forward.
I believe constructive discussions about our path forward is healthy, and should be encouraged. But, we are going to get nowhere by rehashing the old vs new argument over and over again. Ultimately it is going to be a collective effort and believe me, you will want as much support from your fellow pilots, especially if and when the tide turns ugly down the road.
I'm not being condescending nor arrogant here, just merely saying we ought to try playing on the same ball field rather than separate ones if we want to see any real gains come next year. I think we can do it.
Well said. It's easy to fall into the fallacy that because this particular internet board is a "pilot board" that it is secure. I would place a considerable wager that just about anything that is posted here is read by someone in Purchase within days of being posted. That doesn't mean we can't use this forum for valuable exchange but it does mean that every time we let emotion override logic and things get heated it makes people smile in New York. Perhaps one of two things may help. 1.) if something makes one of us really angry then apply a policy of waiting one day before posting (it has saved me from showing my posterior more than once in the past) or 2) send the vitriol directly by way of a private message. It doesn't matter how much we talk about being united if all the company needs to do is read these pages to see that it isn't so.