Long time listener, first time caller.

Yes, the TWU545 dispatchers are supporting you and WILL honor your picket line!!! The Teamsters will honor it as well. Remember there will always be a little resentment with some of them since the pilots split, but they would be shooting themselves in the foot to scab the IPA. UPS management is nervous, I hear it everyday. Assuming management pilots fly the planes, who is going to fix them? The way this company carries around deferrals until the drop-dead date is asking for trouble. Who is going to dispatch the flights? Our management dispatchers don't actually work the desk to stay current and only four of them have dispatched a full sector of flights with Lido since we got it. Dispatch would melt down if these guys all tried to jump on a desk at once! The airline is screwed if you walk and they know it. Replacement pilots? The company would not take the cut in service long enough to get them trained. Publicly owned stock is little too sensitive for that. In all honesty Nicholson's move to send letters to our customers did not sit well with many, but so be it, it's not even close to a reason to cross the picket line.

If there is actually a Teamster surfing this site, you will want and need the IPA behind you on your next contract. I know I would want them backing us when the company pulls us into fours years of negotiating. The dispatchers are giving 100% support to our union brothers!!!

By the way, It's pretty easy and funny to pick out the management moles. They are no different on this board than they are in real life. I deal with the same ones you do too.