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Originally Posted by FreightDawgyDog
So the question is what can we do about this? If the union tells you you shouldn't do it, and you do it voluntarily anyway, doesn't that at least approach the level of scab-like behavior? To be clear I do not think guys flying disputed pairings are scabs, but their behavior certainly makes me wonder if we could count on them to not cross a picket line one day. At the very least, they are wasting all our dues money spent on the SIG, and more importantly they are undercutting whatever legitimacy the SIG has when talking to the company. Maybe if all we do is publish a list of disputed pairings flown after the fact then it isn't very important anyway. I am contacting my rep about turning up the heat here with publishing names of voluntary disputed pairing flyers and/or seeing if we can fine them as well. In the meantime, I know a couple of these guys and I will be asking them if they know why the SIG exists and why they think they know better than the SIG about what constitutes pairings that may be unsafe. I am really sick of our own pilots selfishness and love of Brazilian women (or men?) being put above what is best for the other 4900 of us.
FDD, I agree with you 100%. I think peer pressure on top of personal contact (confrontation) will go a long way to getting guys to understand the foolishness of their ways. I'd love to see ALPA publish, on a monthly basis, the names of the guys who picked up disputed pairings. The list could be incorporated in the ALPA emails that are sent out on a regular basis, as well as being published and hung on the union bulletin boards in Memphis, Newark, Anchorage, Los Angeles, and Indy. Sort of like the union published non-members list, because that's what these guys are doing, becoming (in effect) non-members.
03-16-2010
