HOW TO BREAK THE TRAINING BAN:
1. Approach CAD and have strategy pre-approved. If they seem concerned remind them who pays their salaries.
2. Check with the legal team that CoS are not breached. If a broad violation is unavoidable ensure a legal fight can be protracted until such time your goals have been achieved.
3. Change company docs accordingly.
4. Compile a list of suitable non-volunteering volunteers.
a. Compile a list of those who have expressed an interest in training, subject to the training ban being lifted. Add to the list those who have shown a lot of “engagement” through office visits, uncritical yammer posts and those volunteering for other initiatives (FDAP, CRM, Fuel Saving group, LOSA, etc.) and those sending in useless photos of sunsets and airplanes.
b. Unofficially invite those on the list to "have a chat" and ask if they would object to becoming "reluctant collaborators".
c. Brief successful candidates that if approached by colleagues to stress that they have been forced. If need be, apply harassment & intimidation policy.
5. Intimidate pilots.
a. Sack a few of those bored, loudly barking, pointless motion proposers to shut up the rest of the pilots. Any odd excuse will do, incl. not adhering to uniform standards or checking the allowance sheet for roster changes. How can you have confidence in somebody not wearing a hat ?!
b. If you have to evaluate non-volunteering non-volunteers and they fail the assessment, demote them to FO for lack of core competencies – that will show the rest to pull up their socks.
6. Write plentiful updates in a very conciliatory and reasonable tone. Within:
a. Stress compromise, engagement, mutual respect, partnership, common goals, whilst doing the exact opposite.
b. Schedule pointless meetings with the AOA so you can claim you have consulted. Use the word “stakeholders” a lot.
c. Pretend you are forcing through the changes only in the interest of the employees, the silent majority and the greater good, ignoring the fact that 80% have voted against of what you are forcing down their throat.
7. Give the AOA the full bukkake experience
a. Have AOA-member-trainers train the new candidates
b. Force members of the GC to become trainers.
8. If any of the above fails you can rely on the infighting of AOA members, paralysing any comprehensive counter strategy.
If any of you think that every random Tom, Dick and Harry may be asked to become a trainer you are likely to also believe in the tooth fairy. This is industrial relations theater !
The company is doing nothing less but dismantling the AOA and condemning it to irrelevance. Good luck to us !
Turns out you can vote whichever way you want when it comes to TA’s, you will always end up with the CX mixologist’s rum and coke. The illusion of choice.
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