Originally Posted by
WhipWhitaker
If you don’t subscribe to their exact, militant, burn-it-down line of thinking, you’re a management stooge.
Not quite ...
First, the union does not want to burn down the company. Apply pressure, sure. EXCO members, negotiating team, and most union members simply want a decent job with industry standard work rules and so we are willing to fight for those improvements. Conversely, you are willing to do what? Bad mouth the EXCO? That'll help...
So if you continue to trash our union, where does that put you? If there are three sides in this fight then the union has to waste valuable resources answering to the few that continuously bad mouth Teamsters and our EXCO. It's not exactly like you're hurting the company with the divisive rants. You obviously know from being an airline pilot for many years that we operate under a two party system: Union and company. When pilots start drifting away from the union, they fracture the unity and begin to drag the group into a situation where we all end up being independent contractors. I have seen that movie and it sucks. You know this to be true, too. If you need to change the direction the union has taken then run for office and get yourself elected. If you can't (or more likely, won't), then you have the choice. So, which is it? Are you Union, company, or ... what, exactly?