Originally Posted by
AxlF16
It's not a hard sell, in fact it's far easier than you want to believe. The hurdle the company must clear in order to get an injunction/TRO is about ¼ inch tall (if that). The questions are simple. Are our actions causing financial harm to the company? Are the losses permanent and ongoing? Yes = TRO. The judge simply says 'honor your contract in the same manner you have been doing'. The company has A **** TON of stats that show how much PP is flown, how much TT is done, how much open time is picked up, etc... From the judges perspective a TRO/injunction prevents irreversible financial harm to the company but doesn't harm the pilot group.
There will, and SHOULD, be plenty discussion of how this impacts individual pilots vs the overall pilot group. Short story is that nobody can MAKE an individual pilot partake in any voluntary parts of the contract, BUT if the overall group changes our behavior (based on company data) the group can suffer consequences.
All valid points, and historical prescident (I cant spell) should definitely be a learning point, but as you point it... it’s voluntary. If the larger union hasn’t told anyone to change their behaviors, but we individually decide not to take part and leave my phone off on my days off, what do they have left.
Unfortunately, the minority of selfish individual (SCABs in waiting), are still a large numerical force. Every pilot just needs to decide for themselves who they want to be, and don’t be surprised or angry at the social backlash if you take a certain path.