It's not a conspiracy. Management's advisors (Ford and Harrison) have ran this playbook many times. Every G4 pilot who came from Republic knows what it's like to deal with dispatchers, schedulers, FAs, or MX people who overtly complain that your write-up, etc., is a "union" or "contract thing."

It was management's wet dream...FREE peer pressure to take shortcuts and thus improve operational reliability. In a lot of cases, it worked. It also created a toxic work environment that will linger in that company for many years...new contract or not.

..and it doesn't matter if it was sent only to the pilots...do you really think that this stuff doesn't get passed around? ...or worse yet, spread by word of mouth?