Originally Posted by
Winston
There is a reason HR departments value interns, low-time FOs with no command experience, Part 91 guys who clean potties and throw bags, and it doesn't have anything to do with flying ability. The guys who have a decade or more industry might just be a little bit more contentious when it comes to a confrontation, and they don't have to learn the hard way that in many cases management and labor don't just hold hands and sing and we are most definitely NOT on the same team.
Logically what you're saying makes sense, if a company wants to lead turn an expected strike situation by half a decade or more. UA hired 62% mil last yr and from the looks of the new hire class pics the vast majority appears to be pension collecting retired mil. Why hire people who can sit and collect a paycheck if the ultimate goal is spineless picket line crossers? The argument goes both ways, if you want to be open minded about it, and ultimately there are future scabs from all backgrounds. Even the constant green slip bragging deltoids are filled with future scabs, although they will mention how cal is the scab airline, and united now by association. If you've studied it, whoever went up against Lorenzo was going to be a future scab airline. If he targeted delta, UA/cal would be talking smack about dal/nw these days. Not justifying any of it, but I educated myself on the industry history (I'm mil background), and believe whoever Lorenzo went after was doomed from the start unfortunately.