Originally Posted by
hypoxia
That is certainly a divide and conquer strategy from management. The thing that gets management nervous is when there is a 100% vote for or against or 100% not vote at all. So basically what you are saying is that the junior half is divided against the senior half. Thats exactly what management wants. This "illusion of representation" sounds more damaging than good.
you can see it that way and it would be that way if the company management would have set up the package. It was not.
It's SAPA that has always been dividing the money in favor to the Senior Captains in one way or another.
If anyone divides the pilot group it's SAPA not the company. (Maybe you mean that SAPA and the company are one, that's a whole other chapter.)
A few years ago the FO group was junior and had not grown balls yet. Now they are a group of senior FOs with big balls and most can stand their ground. Also, I do not even believe SAPA is aware of the damage they are doing and I mean damaging the company because the result of insulting a group over and over again and a group that is more than 40% of the pilots like the CRJ FO group will create an excellent enviroment for ALPA or another Union to get in. Specially now that the none voting will not count.
What I do not understand is why the company allows SAPA to damage the company in a way that will create an open door for a Union to get in if they are against unions. I am sure they will have something to say to SAPA after evaluating the result of the vote. If not they are not as smart as I think they are.