Originally Posted by
OTZeagle1
Not this again... ok check back in three weeks, I have only been honest with you. The Union already knows we will be 20 percent smaller summer 2021 compared to 2019... they are still arguing about what that really means, what it looks like. Fine, sorry they are incapable of figuring this out and how it translates.
Fear mongering would be telling you we are furloughing 1,000 and the company is going bankrupt and we need to all take a 25% pay cut. I don’t believe any of that. We are a really conservative company, they will cut deep to preserve shareholders equity. I bet we make 400 million next year. But we will be smaller, we will furlough close to 400, we will downgrade 200. I was furloughed, I found out the day it happened, no notice. I have the gouge, I was just doing what I wish my union would have done for me, so many years ago. Check back in three weeks, tell me I was fear mongering.
I have no doubt your numbers will pan out. That's the truth you spread with the rest of your crap. You hand out something true we were all going to learn sooner or later, and then toss in some other crap to imply that the union is holding out on us or incompetent or whatever. It would be easy to believe that since part of what you say is true, that the rest is as well. You try over and over to sew seeds of doubt, and water them with just a little truth to make them grow.
We aren't the angry 800 vs Alaska anymore, we are all just Alaska pilots hitched to the same wagon now, and everyone knows it. The union is more solid than it has ever been. We know tough times are coming now and that there will be some significant pain ahead regardless of what we do. However, now is the most important time to stick together and keep a collective cool head so we don't make mistakes that cost us dearly for years after Covid19 is over.