Re-posted for your "Education"
Originally Posted by
PolishFlyerDude
Yup.
From the "Complaint for Injunctive Relief" filed by Spirit managment against the Spirit MEC May 8, 2017:
The complaint goes on for more than two pages quoting Spirit pilots posts from APC as evidence.
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 open time to obtaining leverage in the ongoing CBA negotiations with Spirit.
In response to the complaint, the court issued a Temporary Restraining Order enjoining Spirit pilots from engaging in any kind of concerted work action. Worse, it stopped the mediation clock and significantly reduced the danger to Spirit that their pilots could possibly get released in the foreseeable future. That dramatically decreased their leverage. It also put Spirit ALPA in danger of paying out substantial fines if their pilots continued to engage in illegal job actions.