Originally Posted by
Elevation
Your defense hinges on endurance.
You need to last. Your respective tribal leaders need to get together and talk enough to come up with a shared list of common values. You need a statement about all pilots being on "our" team regardless of whether they pick up a trip or something. Finally you need a focusing statement to get pressure off of each other and back on to the shoulders who should bear it. You need to last until hiring picks back up or this thing gets adjudicated (If that's in the cards. I don't know.).
A lot of us come from a background where our job was to see threats and sieze initiative before those threats can act themselves. That primes us to see the bad. How else do you protect the poeple counting on you? It also means we can get a little cross-eyed sometimes. This is natural, and it's a by-product of being good at what you do. Still, we all need to get aligned sometimes. Without this periodic reallignment the outlook just gets darker and darker until it's hopeless.
I like your pep talk friend, I really do. Unfortunately, we don’t find ourselves in the situation as you’ve described with friend / foe identities delineated so clearly. There are a substantial number of our “brothers” that will work more than their fair share to actively undermine the Union. Here, we have no problem with working extra days, voluntarily extending, or picking up disputed pairings. Those that do are the loudest voices in the room and the first to deflect all blame onto The Pancake Man. These are the smartest people with the highest understanding of what leverage is and isn’t. Some of us came to this conclusion early and some are getting around to it.