ben there
I reserve the right to disagree with anybody, or everybody.I am exercising that right.
Your assertion that witholding overtime was in some way immoral because it would have a predictable effect of disrupting flights is disingenuous.
The outcome was not clearly predictable to United's management, unless they had some sort of agenda. From reports I see, they were advised some time ago that rosters could not work without the automatic use of VOLUNTARY overtime.
They thought they knew better.
Who are the "mere pilots" to question the wisdom of United's management?
So when the pilots stopped working overtime Managements plan should have kicked in and things should have continued smoothly.
To assume anything else would mean that management were unaware of the implications (asleep at the helm), or fully knew the implications, and were willing to risk the outcome.
There is a cryptic Caribbean slang that covers this situation; "if you ehnt 'fraid to dead, why I must 'fraid to kill yuh ?"
I think Roadtrip is right on this one.
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