frankg....."It doesn't matter what you say. There is a ban in place. If you join CX now, your name is going on a list, it's that simple. No amount of whining here will get it removed"
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frank........I've read and agreed with most of your posts for a long time now - especially in response to the demented Cessna lover from the desert.
HOWEVER I fear you're getting myopic. The same logic you're applying to the young new joiners struggling to get out of GA etc MUST be applied to those taking upgrades. No amount of twisting logic will change that fact.
Upgraders are DIRECTLY taking the jobs of the '49ers. If you tag the young guys with the title then you simply MUST label all upgraders as scabs.......no twisting logic will change this fact.
CX management should not feel proud of this situation they have helped create, it is an embarrasment to them and as time and history will certainly prove, will devalue Cathay and their own careers which is all they care for. The HKAOA should be ashamed of themselves also. By alienating new joiners they are dividing themselves and the path they are taking at present is only going to lead to the permanent marginalising of the union.
Something assertive needs to be done now, be it a 'face-saving' leadership change or a deadline for re-instatement of the '49ers or whatever. But this meandering industrial weakness is rapidly making you guys an irrelevance.
Many people are on your side here but you are losing or have lost the momentum.
Taking your aggression out on some poor young new joiner is pathetic however and conveniently forgetting to label upgraders as scabs is disgraceful.
Time to get your collective heads out of the sand, concentrate on the big picture, act decisevely and fix up the mess you are in.
The result is not going to be as you would have liked but if you don't do something decisive ans soon, the result will be terrible