..and apparently fancier ties too, as depicted in the Piedmont photo.

Makes me think...since the sickout survey disappeared perhaps there are some other 'civil disobedience' things for us to do.

Pink ties are allowed through the end of this month. IMO a tie rebellion after the pink period ends would be interesting. Do we have Mesa uniform police strolling the airports looking for violators? Doubt it...One or two people wearing 'non-standard' ties **might** go unnoticed. A solo tie rebel, or a few, **might** get noticed and result in a write-up or report to the Chief Pilot. But if a bunch of us did it, in significant numbers, would every single one of us get written up? Would they fire us for non-standard ties? NO. It's a quality of life issue, and costs the company nothing to allow us to do it, and they don't have time for Alvin and the others to be counseling us on proper fashion. :-)

OTOH...it might be expected that we have a contractual uniform look required by our codeshare partners, and Mesa agreed to such. That's why go! got away with the casual look..there was no mainline agreement to worry about.

A sickout, even one organized ad-hoc (not by the union) **might** be illegal and that would be up to the courts to decide. A mass wearing of non-standard ties? It sends a message that we are unhappy with the status quo...well, at least anyone with intelligence would recognize that. The company, since little intelligence resides in the mothership, would probably let this be .. but I suspect AA/UA would be saying something to Mesa HQ about getting us pilots in line with the likely required corporate look. It starts to get our message out and in the face of our operating partners and the public to a certain extent.

It's been hashed out here ad infinitum that the union is going to do nothing. History does have a way of repeating itself. We need to start doing ..SOMETHING.

My .02. Whether you consider this folly or not, let a discussion begin here about how we start the process of publicly expressing our displeasure.