So much for the company claim the Union is orchestrating illegal acts. I wonder what the company is up to that might be considered improper acts?
Latest comment of interest I heard about was the firing of the six pilots that were accused of improperly picketing. The one side of it said they were off duty and off the property and that a clause in the contract allows for no prohibition of free speech rights. The other side said the picketing was an improper act under the contract.
The other complaint said the contract has a method for the company to grieve issues to the union exactly in the manner the contract allows the union to grieve what they think are improper acts by the company. The company has never used the grievance method to resolve differences whereas the union has.
Three of the six guys fired were involved in the union management somehow...and of the six....three of those fired have wives that are fighting cancer and the loss of their medical insurance is going to be devastating to them. Not all the pilots that participated in the picket were fired. It would be enlightening to know the full details of the event and decisions on both sides that resulted in the firings.
All of this could have been prevented had a compromise solution been found sometime during the past two years. What a shame it is to see the human costs of this fight. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning of those kinds of loss.