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Originally Posted by Erroneous
So you are comparing me, using all my vacation days per union request, to someone who crosses a pickets line?
I am genuinely sorry to hear about your child. There are plenty of other ways to get paid time off to be with your child, other than floating. I know many pilots who did just that.
The comparison, while not referring to a true scab, has a lot of validity. Because if the union can’t count on you to comply with a simple request, when CAN they count on you?
The bottom line is this... when your union asks you for unity and sacrifice, you comply and endure it together... because we all know that the company fears a unified pilot group the most. You find ways to deal with what you have to deal with... but you comply.
The union asked you to BID all your vacation and use it. That means, no floating. The union did not ask, Float your vacation and take them as PVDs. They did this to show a force of unity on the vacation awards by displaying a long row of Zeros under the float column. It was a simple enough request.
By floating you are basically telling the company that, hey, I don’t really agree with what the union is doing, and I’m gonna kind of do my own thing... how else can I help?
The excuses I’m hearing from floaters are...well, let’s just put it this way, nothing new.