right, cxorcist. So if it wasn't for 200 pilots who insist on remaining trainers all would be fine? Ignore that the vast majority (170 or so) were themselves "cheaper replacements" when they joined. The training ban is a flawed strategy (as is the way we are doing contract compliance).
Ever more strident calls to "win" or "hold the line" by doing either or both of these "harder" or "better" or "more intensely" are crap: the GC needs to start with a blank page.
We (rightly, I think) mock the company's new slogan, but at least they have attempted, however poorly, to have an update - where's ours? On the industrial side we are seeing the very worst of unionism - stale, entrenched, typified by infighting, and unable to move forward ("beyond"). The GC is a bunch of volunteers, time poor and doing their utter best to cope, inundated by the necessary daily domestic tasks and trivia that need attending to.
TH is doing a good job holding things together, but we need another ND (for all his flaws) if you want to see some unity and leadership.