The solidarity shown by crews is commendable and unfortunately engineers in the UK have always suffered with the "British malaise"when it comes to sticking together for a cause. Companies of course have always shown more leniency towards crews demands than engineers. If push came to shove and your pilots walked out, they are hard to replace. Sadly for engineers, there is always a third party facility or contract agency, home or abroad who can do the maintenance on the aircraft at minimal disruption.
Engineers and Crews have always sniped at each other and it is all part of the banter that forms a working relationship. All professions have it and ours is no different. I like nothing better than a good flt crew put down and did it yesterday at lunch, and very enjoyable it was too. So any crews or engineers who take the banter to heart...lighten up.
As many have stated previously, the only way is to organise ourselves better and have the unions take our cases seriously. The idea of a combined union for crews and engineers is actually not a bad one, even if it were only for representation purposes for a start.
Is that the "Internationale"I can hear playing in the background ???
Out Brothers Out
[This message has been edited by Jango (edited 18 September 2000).]
[This message has been edited by Jango (edited 18 September 2000).]