Very heated rhetoric. I shall try to stick to the facts and would like some sensible replies and comments.
Atlas Airplane
Giant Callsign
JFK-DOV
Customer AMC
Atlas operations tell (The Crew) to go to Building 21 in the HOTEL VAN in which there are also 3 Kallitta guys.
Videod leaving hotel.
Followed to Bldg 21 by car, being videod.
500 yards from building 21, on an approach road, 3 picketting Polar guys approach the side of the road as the hotel van passes by.
Hotel van stops outside of Bldg 21 and Kallitta crew de-bus.
(The Crew) stay on van and refuse to enter Buliding 21 as
(The Crew) consider it picketted.
(The Crew) call operations to inform them that they are not entering Bldg 21 as they consider it picketted even though the picketters are not even in sight, only the video car.
Mike Bryant (CP) tells (The Crew) to go in and go to work.
(The Crew) refuse.
Port Authority Police arrive and tell picketters and video car to leave as they have no permit to picket in this area.
(The Crew) still refuse to go in.
Half an hour later (The Crew) are taken by Atlas van to the other side of the airport, through an access gate where there are no pickets.
Flight departs late.
Have (The Crew) followed MEC/ALPA guidance?
Have (The Crew) behaved honorably?
Should (The Crew) have done something else?
Is it a legal picket?
What exactly is being picketted?