Originally Posted by
an225flyer
To all the "furious" Spirit pilots out there who think the judge and the company want you to fly "broken airplanes" or "fly sick or fatigued":
I think what the lawsuit and court order was really about was the illegal job action set in motion by a small group of your pilots. before you start denying this blindly allow me to explain. It is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that one or more Spirit crew members have created a public list of names and contact information identifying everyone who has picked up open time and "helped" the company?! Is this really true!? (this is the illegal job action to which I was referring)
Now I am sure you all realize this is considered an illegal job action..if this really did happen then I am also sure you all are aware that anyone who used that information to call and harass another crew member is now a participant in that same illegal job action and is in direct violation of the railway labor act and federal law.
It is getting old reading posts from pilot after pilot who thinks they did nothing wrong and is just another victim of their companies accusations when in fact it was clearly the company who was the victim in this case.
Here are the facts:
Your pilots intentionally slowed down the airline, got caught, got a lawsuit, and are now saying you did nothing wrong..
My point is simple: Please guys, please, for the sake of all pilots everywhere, STOP MAKING US ALL LOOK BAD!
Yeah, I will just repeat myself again: "But the problem is it will be the company decision if it is a "concerted effort ". This is the same company that started the injunction after failing to adequately the staff transition period ( LAS reserve grid days were green with minus 6 coverage), forgive me but without an independent arbitrator monitoring the company against pressuring the pilots into flying BWF (Broken aircraft While Fatigued) I am not happy."
Originally Posted by
an225flyer
I can promise you that if both sides are negotiating truly in good faith then you will get the best contract you have ever had and all the other problems will resolve on their own I have seen it a hundred times. This is what we are really all after isnt it? we have to protect this profession for the future but we have to be smart about it.
2 years ago during our regular scheduled summer meltdown our union agreed to waive contract protections to help avert a total shutdown with the promise of John Bendoraitis (*Chief Operating Officer), we would get some quid pro quo, understood by most to mean for the next contract. Management proceeded pretend to want limited sections opened for quick contract renewal. After a year of theis the union finally realized wath was going on and now we are in mediated sessions. Last month that same COO didn't show for scheduled negotiations because "jury duty".
I feel a distinct lack of good faith from the opposite side of the table and while I don't agree with publishing names of people working on their scheduled days off, I definitely don't need some yoyo who has sat at both side of the table but does not work for Spirit commenting on how I should feel.