Another sit-in is programmed for this Monday and I say support your local friendly engineer. They've gone out of their way to cover up one major balls up I made not long ago.
If you have a defect on your aeroplane PUT IT IN THE BOOK then ask for an engineer; sit back, put your feet up, grab a broadsheet and enjoy at your leisure.
Let's show management there's solidarity on the shop floor.
I second the apologies to the travelling public but if they can't see that indirectly it is for their benefit, then they aren't thinking.