Originally Posted by
untied
Please note that I never said affirmative action was not needed. SOMETHING had to happen to open the door to the airlines. They went a little too far demanding 10%. The proof of this is the fact that they quickly ran out of people with appropriate experience, and had to hire people with very low time.
There are many people who were discriminated against that had plenty of experience and ability. That's another problem with AA......it takes credibility away from those who actually deserve the job.
This group is no different than any of the other "buckets". Part of my problem is that I'm jealous that I didn't fit into ANY of them!!
It was a great post Untied. Thanx for putting forth the effort.
The Scab issue is not so easily decipherable at CAL. There are a couple of factors that made the strike quite different than the UAL '85 strike. Lorenzo, a darling of presidents Reagan and Bush, struck (locked-out) the pilots, with the full support of Ronald Reagan. The pilots did not decide or vote to strike CAL until much later. ALPA instructed many pilots to continue working during the first few months. NYAir and PE were already circumventing fair wages before the strike. ALPA threw the striking CAL pilots under the bus to insure an '85 UAL-ALPA, <month strike, had the best chance for success.
All in all, most scabs are not worth squirrel **** on dog sh!t, but there are about 5%-10% that are excellent pilots and unionists. Find out who you need to isolate and the vast majority of CAL pilots with be with you in administering justice (isolation / ostracization). Keep in mind that scabs are the most unified subgroup on the CAL list. The company loves them and they keep good communication between themselves. I hope that you can make the bad ones just as miserable as they have kept us. I'm counting on it.