Originally Posted by
Chowdah
I don’t think he’s ever lied… he has just had some pretty bad information coming from management pilots about what pilots actually want from this contract. all the quotes that paint him in a bad light have come as secondhand information from LEC reps and re-posts.
take the middle school rhetoric down, just a tad. This isn’t heroes and villains… It’s a guy who has a fiduciary responsibility to the board, and some fairly highly paid tradespeople who have leverage right now and are determined not to squander it.
most of us have been through bad times in this industry… These are not bad times.
We are fighting for what will become the baseline when they come to strip stuff away in bad times.
Kirby isn’t a villain but he’s seemingly losing sight of how important happy labor is to his plans. Tumi should’ve resulted in an absolute corporate bloodbath of anyone who touched it, both at the ALPA level and at the company. We’ve cleaned house for the most part, Kirby is continuing on with the same yes drones that gave him tumi. They’re holding our pass backs for months. This is treading beyond fiduciary duty towards exploiting a cheaper labor group for another few months. At this stage of the game I think he’s at minimum painting a rosier picture than reality. Dishonest, borderline lying.