We’ve been here before and we’ll continue to be shafted until planes stop flying.
Whilst we have self-serving, spineless sycophants for ‘managers’, who are powerless anyway, wielding the prod handed down to them by the powers that be we will continue to feel the pain.
From DECs to crew rest facilities, accommodation to duty hours and now ‘sharing the pain’ with our over time they run roughshod over our terms and conditions because quite frankly they can get away with it.
We can & should resist with ASRs, ignore 'fuel saving advice' but what they really need to understand is a clear signal that enough is enough. How?
Coordinate a 'Press 2', an en mass sickie planned on a specific day. It would ground the fleet and cause chaos. It would make the press and cost the company dearly.
Likely hood of it happening? Zero, but I like to think about it anyway.
We are easily divided, live in fear of losing our jobs and therefore easily ruled. From Capt US, TCAS’s DEC BA mates (in contravention of the FOM but TCAS reserves the right to enforce or ignore it when he wants) to all the other Vaseline encrusted ‘colleagues’ there are too many of us prepared to go to work on days off let alone do something as a group to stand up to the abuse.
The only good thing about the current financial crisis is that it was inevitable and the sooner we get through it and out the other side the sooner there will be opportunities to leave.
Last edited by Marooned; 11th Feb 2009 at 05:37.