Originally Posted by
Bananie
The sheer arrogance of your position is laughable. Do you think that the other employees are just waiting for the pilots to tell them what to do? There have been numerous organizing efforts by numerous unions and they have all failed. What makes you think ALPA will be able to change their minds? Please, could you make a video of you instructing the other employees about how they need to listen to the godlike pilots laying down their infinite wisdom. I mean what else would they do except fall at your feet and thank you for your benevolence. How else could those simple little sheep make up their minds without the patient guidance of the pilots. Go ahead, start that organizing drive, I would like to buy tickets to see you get your comeuppance. The great and mighty pilots have spoken, submit or be crushed. What arrogance.
You must have been out on FPL for the bulk of the last FA union drive. Anyone who was flying for a living during that time period can attest that many of the FAs sought pilot opinions about having a union. As the only unionized labor group on property, our opinion matters. We don't have to convince 51% of the FAs that a union is a good idea, many of them already think so. We just need to convince a few of them. We can have an influence on a FA union vote and it is one more piece of leverage we can use in our negotiations.
You have a voice to be heard, drop the bitterness and make it a voice for the pilot group. The management team will do fine without your help. We need you on our team, not theirs.