Originally Posted by
slowplay
One comment to clarify my previous post, AMR and UAUA both sued their collective bargaining agents and got court ordered injunctive relief for increased sick usage. DAL got injunctive relief over the refusal to fly overtime. If the facts were as Carl alleged, then it would seem that a vindictive NWA management would have used the same tools that other managements used to great effect. Your version makes much more sense.
The following is all speculation. This "BoB", as far as I know, doesn't exist...
However, as long as we're speculating, the company would only have had recourse when:
A) Any action was a collective action, instigated, encouraged and/or organized by the association, and NOT the action of 5000+ individual pilots acting individually, and;
B) There was evidence of such action.
Seeing as NWA in the past had successfully lobbied for court orders to seize a FA's hard drive on their PERSONAL computer, upon which they THOUGHT contained evidence of an organized work action, they were more than capable of pursuing this had they had even a schosh of evidence. To think that NWA wouldn't go for the legal jugular when they had an opportunity is just silly.
This leads to a couple of conclusions:
1) Any such action, if it existed at all, was not a collective action, and therefore ALPA is held harmless (+1 in the "stones" category)
2) No bankable evidence was extant
3) NWA feared even worse labor relations and/or breakdown of operations caused by any legal action. In this case, the "reputation" of the pilot group having "stones" would have certainly played a part in dissuading the company from futher crank stepping. (so that's another +1).
If the company thinks you are going to just bend over and take it, they'll give it to you time and again. If they think you'll go all bat sh!t crazy on them, they'll think twice.
Just because you LOOK crazy doesn't mean you are....maybe just crazy like a fox.
And I'm not seeing too many foxes these days, other than in Super's posts...
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