Originally Posted by
Just
From previous posts I know you’ve been at the blue for a while, so it’s even more amazing to see this level of ignorance and naïveté. This pilot group has never taken any ground when leverage was greatest, never. Our MEC is the weakest I’ve ever seen in nearly 20 yrs of Alpa membership. We are headed into possible merger negotiations with CK at the helm and I’m seriously losing sleep. We’ve already seen how sad and pitiful the Spirit group is, so if we don’t draw a hard line in the sand now, I guarantee we don’t achieve anywhere near parity to the big 4. Please have some gumption now, let’s show the Spirit group what not being cowards looks like.
The internet has an unfortunate habit of causing people to demonize or denigrate people that simply hold a different opinion than others - and not even of some life or death issue, but simply what MIGHT or MIGHT NOT happen in a negotiation. That is scarcely the way to build union unity (note the similar etymology of those words?) for effective future negotiations with management.
surely you can advocate for your side of an issue without calling your fellows cowards, rat b@stards, etc? Can’t you?