Originally Posted by
WhaleSurfing
I spent 20+ years doing labor negotiations on both sides of the fence and that included direct union involvement as a union official to go on strike years ago.
If anyone on APC really thinks that what is written on these types of forums has any effect whatsoever on how management chooses their strategy then you’re some kind of dumb. The only thing they use these boards for is to seek TROs when idiots post job action propaganda as it serves for hard evidence in court.
Thinking that a handful of keyboard warriors who are the same cast of characters day in and day out moves the scale one way or the other in negotiations is just plain stupidity.
MAYBE all of the above is true.
But maybe it’s not.
And why were you involved on both sides of the fence (labor and management) at your last airline? We’ve had plenty of our own SWAPA turncoats over the years who have harmed the pilot group’s efforts by playing both sides of the fence - the most prominent recent example being CK. SWAPA won’t even attend meetings when he is present given the level of betrayal that is represented by him playing on SWAPA’s side and now, playing on management’s side.
Even if what you said was true at whatever airline you came from does not mean that the same is true at SWA.
The fact is that airline management
DOES read these forums. Why give management any more information than we have to?