Originally Posted by
Kougarok
You know what I am not going to *****foot around about it! The pilots at our sister airline ATI that crossed our picket line are scabs and should be treated as such along with JV and MW.
Careful.. you do know ATI just negotiated your next contract. If and when (hopefully not at all) ATI and ABX become one airline, whats left of the ABX pilot group will be raising gear for MiniV.
Regarding this so called "strike", funny how there's no photographs of this so called picket line, none of these "scabs" are listed on the scab list and there's no names of the pilots who supposidly "crossed" your picket line. Remember ABX and ATI are separate airlines, backed up by a decision from the NMB.
Half of the pilots who were not on duty that day didn't even know about all this drama until a day or two later. It almost seems like you guys intentionally kept your "strike" a secret from every other CVG pilot in hopes of other pilots continuing to fly their trips because they didn't have knowledge of this "strike". Usual strike protocol was not followed, there was no cooling off period etc. How difficult would it have been for your Exco to email the ATI pilot group to inform us of what was about to happen.
Besides, ABX has no freight of their own, it's all DHL/Amazon--separate companies. ABX operates their own seperate routes from anyone else. ATI did not fly freight on dedicated routes that was normally flown by ABX. ATI didn't fly struck work, ATI didn't take any pilot jobs from ABX, no ATI pilots were hired to replace striking ABX pilots, every ATI pilot is a union member (not even Teamsters)
Here's your logic. If United Airlines strikes, all the other 6 passenger airlines operating LAX-DFW will have to strike too, otherwise they would all be scabs because they're flying displaced United passengers. Struck work. That includes American, Spirit, Compass, Delta, Skywest.