Originally Posted by mudflap757

That’s the exact same sentiment that drove us to collect cards in the first place. When you try to organize a committee and the IBT business agent keeps blowing you off, or plain outright says “I have a bunch of other councils I run, and I don’t have time” and people tend to lose interest. That coupled with no visible road to become a union steward, or recall the ones we have, has brought us to this point. Yes the IBT picked up the ball and ran with it during the dark ages, but they got really comfortable being the party of opposition and had no clue what to do moving forward once that opposition(Basset) was removed. This is a completely different airline then when you left Cap, and you or the IBT leaders can’t seem to see that. On the seniority list I’m in the high 30’s, and happen to be about the last pilot to really have gotten a glimpse at the Basset era. We have almost 120 pilots now, and a vast majority of them have no idea about Basset... nor do they really care. They see the growth here, they see the problems we currently have and the wall management is trying to build between the old and new pilots, and they know the IBT is not equipped to handle those issues or represent us in a way that professional pilots deserve.

All I can say is keep underestimating our pilot group, and think we are some sort of lesser group because you believe that because we come from airline with a tarnished name from the past. They say the punch that gets you is the one you didn’t see, so just keep looking the other way... the IBT did just that, and their sucker punch will be delivered next Monday.