Monkeyfly

150. Newness of aircraft.
151. Fuel efficiency of aircraft.
152. Range of aircraft.
153. Pounds of thrust of engines.
154. MTOW of aircraft.
155. Etops capability of aircraft.
156. Percentage of "International" flights.
157. How fast "firm orders" are arriving.
158. Being "hand picked" to F-15s and "indeed" one of the first to fly it.
159. Flat panel glass displays.
160. Trans-Atlantic capability of narrow-body aircraft.
161. Resale value of aircraft vs. cost of new aircraft.
162. Electric pumps and humidifiers for pressurization.
163. Use of ADS-B
164. Use of CPDLC
165. Capability of your iPhone vs. other guy's planes.
166. Eco-friendliness.
167. Proliferation of winglets, rakelets and other money saving wingtips.

Baron50

Well, if you are referencing a "right to free speech" in the work place, you would be correct. You have a constitutional right to free speech, but you do not have a constitutional right to work for UAL. The code of conduct would allow management to fire someone who might tell his local newspaper that UAL was unsafe or in some other way damage the corporation’s reputation. This is not the issue.

As part of the 1985 back to work agreement, both parties agreed to a "no recrimination clause" in other words, we could not throw the scabs out of the union via Article VIII and management could not fire strikers for their past activities. However, this did not stop certain scabs from suing us for harassment and losing those cases in spectacular fashion. One of the unintended consequences of the scab's efforts was that a federal judge determined that calling a scab a scab was not harassment

Now, if the CAL management wants to be in violation of the back to work agreement and a federal judge, let them give it a go. ALPA is quite prepared to defend someone accused of harassment, and we have a very good record of wining those cases. It sounds like the CAL culture was to fear management, that has not been the case on the UAL side and I doubt that will change much in the future.

Not so young,

Baron

SpecialTracking

Baron,

Thx for the history lesson.