OK, OK, I KNOW that normal people would rather take a moderately severe beating than read something like this:

https://www.americanbar.org/content/...thcheckdam.pdf

But before you get too free with your comments on a public forum, READ THAT.

The executive summary is that when negotiations get going for a new CBA even encouraging people to just more scrupulously adhere to the terms of the EXISTING CBA can get some judges to hit the pilots and the unions with an injunction because you are allegedly changing the status quo to affect the results of the upcoming negotiation, even if all you are asking for is, to quote somebody’s avatar, ‘No Waivers, No Favors.’

OK, we all know the RLA isn’t the fairest or most balanced piece of legislation ever written, but to quote an old WWII poster, ‘Loose lips sink ships’.

Yeah, I don’t know what happened to the first amendment either, but this is the sort of legal $h|t that can and does go on. Not saying you shouldn’t discuss options or tactics to negotiate more effectively but the crew room with no management people present or one on one with the other pilot over dinner on a layover may be a more .... uh, PRUDENT way to discuss these things.