Originally Posted by
Grumpyaviator
true mgmt reads them, and they can get your identity no matter how covert you try to be. but giving a preference or an opinion is hardly subject to discipline. just don’t say anything here you wouldn’t express to the company in a town hall or crew room visit.
the Spirit case and others like it had to do with advocating job action which isn’t legal under rla. A much different situation.
You totally missed my point. Maybe I worded it poorly.
No, expressing an opinion about something outside of a job action or that doesn’t violate the social media policy or something like that won’t get you in trouble.
However, revealing personal demographic information along with how you feel, (eg I was hired in late 2017, I’m a 125xxx number, etc) gives the company and their labor consultants like FordHarrison information that can be used by them to craft a 51% solution that best serves the corporation’s interests.
The corporation is fiduciarily beholden to shareholders, not to employees, and not to pilots. The interests of shareholders do not necessarily align with those of pilots. In fact, they often don’t align.
For example, if management could get away with us paying to go to work, they just might do that. That would be in their interest. That’s called “pay to play”. It happens: Key Lime Air during The Lost Decade and SWA itself had a version of it with the required type rating up until the last few years. That sort of thing is not in pilots’ interests.
So, if management is able to discern from reading APC and from their other sources that a bunch of guys hired in the last few years or a bunch of more senior guys or whatever will accept concessions at almost any cost or with such and such condition attached in order to stave off furloughs, then when the time comes, management and their paid consultants will be able to produce a concessions package with a high degree of confidence will be voted in by our pilot group. That information serves management’s interests, not our interests.
Even if you favor concessions, by providing management (who reads everything written here) with more information than you need to give them, you provide them with ammunition to construct a concessions package with the most savings for the corporation and the most pain for you and your family.