Originally Posted by
iaflyer
What you said rings true. Had they offered SILs back in the spring, then offered various other voluntary programs, and then early outs, I might have been more inclined to help if the voluntary programs didn't save enough money. But the order of the various programs seems all backward - the GOAL seems to furlough pilots, rather than save money.
Who puts out a displacement bid BEFORE they offer an early out??
Now they have this bid they can't train, with a decent portion who were displaced on paper but now will be leavings before their displacement. So to keep the widebodies flying (assuming the senior people leaving are on wide bodies) they will likely have to put out an AE to fill the spots that they just got rid of.
Exactly my friend... company always hints about optics. Their optics are horrible on this. Like you said, everything was backwards and the optics on that, along with the 2558 WARN hostage letters, point to pilot targeting. No one else in the company has had ANY deal or promise of no furloughs for a year.
This whole endeavor has been textbook labor bullying. Nothing makes sense (to us). Because they are using anti-labor techniques and those do not follow a nice, gentle and sensible path.
Many of us lived through the last black swan event. Most of us know about it... now we need to remember what happened and use those memories of just how nasty and unfair of a situation that was... and use that to further bolster our desire to not let it happen again.
PS-Remember that true character only comes out during times of duress. All those times the company says great things about the pilots (During happy times) are mostly bull$h!^. Now JL has reminded us just what they think of us... cost units.