Originally Posted by
PurpleTurtle
The company hired you and the company can fire you... and the APA gets to F you... Bless the company (at least pretend when they are looking).
The knuckle headed APA is now calling on pilots to refuse scheduling assignments that are (in the opinion of the APA) contrary to the contract.
UnFing believable... The APA couldn't fight against the membership fast enough and hard enough to pass the JCBA immediately at the behest of management (contrary to all common sense in the most insane profit period of airline history)... The APA couldn't muster a whimper of protest in the easiest of negotiating environments, but now they want individuals to buck the company and offer the chief pilot a middle finger?
Where to H will the APA be when the chief pilot fires you? The APA will be busy eating at another expensed obscenely lavish dinner.
The dinner was a terrible lapse in judgment. I agree. But we can find a way to become a formidable block that the company cannot manipulate into doing their own bidding. I do not see how you can believe that we are better off fighting corporate conglomerates as individuals.