Bans work - The next time you look for a job
The ban probably won't work on anyone who hasn't seen what happens to scabs/banned people until they look for their next job.
The kind of people who scab/banned seem to have personality traits that make it difficult to keep a job, at least from my experience. Many have been purged from UAL despite the Company's promise to protect them at all costs.
In the military we used to say "10 percent never get the word"; in this case the majority of scabs aren't deaf, they have some sort of social flaw.
At UAL, very very few Eastern Airlines Pilots who were on the scab list made it thru the hiring process, even though Eastern Pilots all were eminately qualified for employment.
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I carry a master scab list with me at all times. If your name is on it, you won't be on my jumpseat. I know I am not alone in this practice.
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Sometimes accidents happen to the best of pilots. In many parts of the world, pilots are thought guilty in a hull loss until proven innocent. I really would hate to be an ex-pat in a country with different language, legal systems, and cultures without IFALPA's resources to represent me legally.
I few years ago I was violate for an altitude bust during departure control switching freq's and sectors.
Was called in for a dance with the Chief Pilotand told my side of the story. He said to expect a guilty finding as 90 percent of all altitude bust happened between 10 and 11 thousand feet.
Went to the local Union man and got the same song and dance. That rather surprised me.
Went to ALPA National, they are the only people who pulled both sector tapes instead of the one where the allegeded bust occurred. Once the FAA listened to the Freq where the handoff occured and found that we rogered and read back the correct altitude, we were vindicated and it was chalked up to a Controller Operational Error.
Kim