Originally Posted by
disillusioned
One former SAPA president was very upfront with our pilot group. The company tried to limit his communication and our former VP of FO asked that all communication to the pilots go through him to be approved before it was sent to the pilots. Our SAPA President refused and lost access to send emails from the company email to the pilot group.
Hahahah really? That sounds like third grade behavior on the company's part. Good god, that's worse than MESA was in the old days. Company really wants to control the message I guess.
Originally Posted by
disillusioned
The only time you will see a push on elections is when SAPA is worried about someone running that may rock the boat.
So SAPA protects the company in some way that they don't want someone rocking the boat? What do you mean by rocking the boat?
Originally Posted by
disillusioned
Changing the ability to have new hires vote (during a pay package vote that gave them a substantial raise), censoring our forums, and trying to give the company the ability to reflow our pilots via our EFB are just a couple that come to mind.
New hires got to vote too? WHAT? Uh... I thought you would get to vote AFTER you were off probation which is usually one year.
So, a new pilot on property for one day gets to vote? That definitely could favor the company during a hiring boom. Get the newbies to vote in a crappy deal for the senior pilots. Oh boy!
If that's true who the heck made up that policy? DUMB.
Originally Posted by
disillusioned
you don't dare speak up for fear of retaliation. In fact, we had a recent SAPA rep that was very critical of the company and called them and SAPA out regularly. He was labeled as a troublemaker and subsequently fired.
They fired a SAPA person because they were critical? The company labeled them a trouble maker and retaliated against them? Whoa, that's so illegal. I'd assume that the SAPA group stood in the way of the firing and the SAPA rep got their job back because that sounds very, very wrong. Good for the person standing up to the company. Bad if your pilot group did nothing for you.
I must say, the internal politics at your place seem horrible.
You guys need a union, this SAPA thing doesn't sound like it works for the pilots.