Originally Posted by
UPS1856
Read your contract again.
Many years ago, Bedford came to the Chautauqua Pilot group to fly the Comair struck work. They could not be forced to fly struck work and it went for a vote.
It failed miserably.
I guess it bears repeating:
THERE WAS NO STRIKE AT MIDWEST
If any of the (understandably) angry MidEx pilots would like to claim that the RAH group are scabs, line crossers, or anything of the sort, the example you cited shows what could be expected from the RAH group if they'd had any legal means to refuse the flying.
MidEx pilots had no legal basis to strike. They would have lost their jobs.
RAH pilots had no legal basis to refuse the work. They would have lost their jobs.
How is this the result of
anything other than management taking every legal advantage they could find to ignore the pilot groups? The fact that we can do no better than point the finger at other pilots in reaction to such management practices is a shining example of how utterly fragmented and impotent we are as a labor group. Frankly, we're getting exactly what we're capable of negotiating for. Nothing.