31. For instance, in an April 29, 2017 recorded telephone call with Crew Scheduling, a pilot reported that “a lot of guys are not picking up stuff up next month and I don’t want to be one of those guys that you know, they are shaming for picking **** up next month. So, I’d rather finish this month off good and then I’m going to need the money for next month.” The pilot then asked if his name could be kept off of a published junior assignment list because he wanted to keep himself “in the clean,” and “everybody [is] getting on everybody’s case about picking **** up.” The pilot further stated why the slowdown was occurring: “Unfortunately, we don’t have a contract. ... I am a firm believer that we don’t have anything that we can do to get the Company to come on our side to get a contract. So if this will help a little bit ... we’re trying to show to send a message to the company, you know, pay us . . . . All those trips would be eaten up in a heartbeat if we had a contract.”
Another pilot’s recorded outgoing voicemail message states that, “if this is crew scheduling, I’d love to help out just as soon as an industry-standard contract is approved....”
32. On May 5, 2017, in response to a call from Crew Scheduling requesting that a Captain pick up an open time trip, the Captain responded: “... the really, really sad thing is -- and I’m just going to go ahead and say this because I know it is on a recorded line. I would be interested, except for the fact that the pilot group has taken the hostilities and the harassment of anybody picking up open time to an extreme level . . . . So, I would like to, I really would. I would be happy to come in and fly. But, due to those things, I’m unfortunately going to have to decline.” The Captain further stated “I would come in and fly, but it literally has gotten to the point of people threatening physical violence.”
33. Spirit became aware of a website named “Spachokers.com.” on May 4, 2017. The website stated that it was “dedicated to those pilots that continue to undermine the pilot group by saving the day for the company!” The website further contained the title “HEROES OF THE MONTH” and stated “#CompanyHeroes: These people don’t give a **** about you or your family” before listing the names of Spirit pilots who had accepted open time flying, inserting certain derogatory comments, and specifically indicating which individual was a “NON ALPA MEMBER.” The website also listed the names of so-called “INSTRUCTOR *****S,” and “*****S OF THE WEEK,” which listed the number of hours flown by a pilot in the month of March. The website was removed on the same day that the Company became aware of it. When the Company attempted to determine who had started the site, it learned that the site was hosted by Godaddy.com but the registration information was made non-public.
34. Some Spirit pilots are also promoting refusing open time flying and intimidating pilots who pick up open time flying by denigrating those pilots on the Airline Pilot Central Forum ("APC”). APC is a publicly-accessible forum for pilots, generally grouped by airline, where pilots discuss a wide-range of topics pertaining to their employment, such as the currently ongoing contract negotiations. In approximately the past week, the posts on the APC Spirit blog/page have encouraged pilots to refuse open time and have begun to threaten/harass pilots who do pick up open time flying. These posts expressly tie the refusal to pick up opentime to obtaining leverage in the ongoing CBA negotiations with Spirit. For example, recent posts include:
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