Originally Posted by
Poppachubby
It would only be a special kind of dumbass that would even consider picking up more because of this stupid threat. "OMG.....the company is threatening lawsuit......we could get in really really really big trouble......I better go work on my day off"! The only ones I think we'd have to worry about are the ones we've finally turned to see the light go back to their choking ways while justifying it!
I've really never studied the history of past pilot groups suffering any ill fate due to the so called work actions. It just baffles me that any court would even consider awarding retribution if people simply don't want to work on their days off! Kind of mind blowing......
There's a difference in being sued because you don't pick up open time and being sued because you told someone not to pick up open time.
The lawsuit is against the latter. It can be proven that open time pick ups have been reduced, now can it be proven that it's because of outside forces? If it can be then you lose.
But at the end of it if you don't want to work on your day off no one, not even the courts, can force you too. However if you harass pilots that do work on their day off you are now going against a court order and will be punished accordingly. Free will vs. peer pressure.