Originally Posted by
FedupFlex
By your quote "Looks to me that the union has no will to protect the pilot pension"; maybe it can be construed that Management dug in their heels and the Union has gone as far as it could with the current perception of pilot resolve? The company has very good data of our resolve by the way of VBB, AVA responses, number of pilots protecting carry-over, sucking up Open Time, etc. And, our previous MEC did us a disservice by not doing any kind of campaign to build our collective resolve up including a strike vote.
I think it all originates with Fred Smith and the fact the company is based in the mid-south. Unions are evil according to a huge percentage of the local population. Although the law requires good faith bargaining Fred has been engaged in revenge bargaining ever since ALPA first arrived in 93. His purpose has been to show the pilots plus all other potential union members such as drivers that the pilots made a huge mistake by voting the union in. His tactic has been divide and conquer. It is real tough to get 4000+ pilots reading from the same page when you face an opposition with a very defined command structure with one goal. Ask 100 pilots what the goal is and you'll probably get 100 different answers.