Originally Posted by Gunga Din

Do we have a bunch of feckless union leadership or what?

We get brushed off a negotiation schedule, called second class pilots and are coming up on a year past amenable date and what have we heard from our leaders? Crickets.

I thought after our last push here on APC to get press from billboards, newspaper editorials and newspaper advertisements, we might see some activity. Crickets.

After BF calls us chumps and easily controlled stooges I assumed our leaders would respond in a forceful way. Instead we got a mealy mouthed letter sent to no one. Has anyone seen it in public? Whoever sent that out on a Friday needs to buy Public Relations and Communications for Dummies.

Would it be too much to ask the pilots work as a team? A membership wide letter saying something like "in these challenging negotiating times, it is imperative we show management how important our contribution to company can be and the importance of proper staffing. Therefore we recommend everyone to fly there lines as awarded and nothing more, even at 200%. We also recommend for our FO's to complete an extra through preflight inspection and captains should comply with the manual to the letter regarding discrepancies.
If the placards are difficult to read they need to be written up.
We recommend people do not subject fellow workers to illness. If you feel unwell please use your sick time."

Someone smarter than me can clean it up to make it pass legal scrutiny. We only want legal actions. But action none the less. Why is our leadership so unwilling to rock the boat?

As it stands, each base is left up to their own imagination to gain attention from the company. We won't be unified until our leaders ask us to be.
Come on guys. Talk to us. Lead us.