Originally Posted by
deltajuliet
If and when we get to Mediation, that won't help our cause. That' assuming ALPA isn't sued to high heaven first. We're better off accelerating everything possible to reach a strike vote ASAP, whether or not we'll ever be allowed to.
Market forces will probably do most of our negotiating for us in the next 6-12 months, anyway.
ALPA can be sued, but it'd be pretty obvious to any judge that ALPA had zero hand in what appears to be some misguided individual's attempt to organize such a thing--for all you know it could be some disgruntled former Mesa pilot, or some kid in his mom's basement.
ALPA is probably already hand-in-hand with management diligently trying to get that taken down. And honestly, the company probably doesn't even care--they'll just extend a bunch of reserves into their off days and payout 150-200-300% until it's all covered.
Whoever is doing this should consider the fact that the only people they're really hurting with this are reserves, passengers, flight attendants--who don't have cancellation pay. And also anyone unfortunate enough to be legitimately sick or coming off a block of reserve days on those days. Remember the conference call--JO doesn't care--he'll still get the same paycheck at the end of the day.
Spend your time and energy and anger filling out apps ya'll--your feet are more powerful any amount of sick calls/writeups/whatever else you think you're going to pull off.