The guys I have talked to that don't want a union are pretty set on voting no, a few fence sitters here and there. I have had guys tell me "there is no need for a union here at jetblue right now." My first reaction is to grab my o2 mask to overcome the instantaneous nausea, then after a minute or two I ask why they feel this way. Some of the more ridiclous answers I have heard are "Dave Barger cares about the pilots. He is going to fix things, but can't do anything now because we are voting for union." This is not about being anyone's friend, this is business and putting emotion into this about our CEO "caring" is extremely dangerous to our future. Of course he wants to show he cares because it psychologically puts a person or work group in a moral dilemma.

Let me say it again JB pilots, management is not our friend or buddy. They run a business and putting this whole thing about us liking each other and having a great culture is showing our foolishness as a pilot group. Management loves us because its easy to manipulate pilots if you can get them believing they care about you. Employees will do anything if you can manipulate them enough. Unfortunately, we are a perfect example of manipulation, look how many of us have lined up to work here for substandard pay and benefits, right? Heck, there are a whole slew of them in the pool right now waiting to get hired. So management's plan is working, they manipulate, we work for nothing.

The only people that Dave Barger is truly worried about are the board of directors and stock holders. The best thing for us to do is to get greedy, real greedy and start thinking about OURSELVES and not management, after all it's just business.