atlasairstrike:
Why did you warn the AACS crewmembers not to go on strike ?
This was quite useless, as it was never planned to support and join the mainline in this strike. AACS was prepared and willing to take over whatever was possible.
Just for clearification:
1. Mainline tried since the establishment of AACS to get rid of AACS. Even the downvoted TA in March had it included.
What, if any, support do you expect under these facts ?
2. Mainline never got in contact with AACS to discuss any support for the pending strike. And as long as the mainline intends to erase AACS there would have been never any support.
As long as you don't accept AACS and as long as you don't get control of you militant anti-AACS crewmembers, there can't be any support or cooperation.
3. AACS crewmembers have not been contacted by BALPA, the national IFALPA organisation, to support any Atlas mainline strike.
Is this an indication that not even BALPA was supporting this pending strike or just (another) lack of support and coordination between ALPA and BALPA ?
4. There would have been as well no legal possibility for any support. The only option would have been to report sick.
Only a quite normal daily number of 5 crewmembers (ex-mainliners ?) called in sick - that was all the support you got.
(Most) AACS crewmembers agree with your arguments for a contract, but
* as long as a common hotel and a mixed crew (mainliners & AACS) has many times to be considered a hostile enviroment,
* as long as there is no cooperation and coordination between you and AACS for an improvement of our work and
* as long as you don't accept AACS as a part of Atlas and be willing to understand the reason for this part of Atlas
you are dead wrong to expect anything which supports you.
AACS crewmembers have offered their hands since the first contact with you - but it has been and is still being ignored.
Most, if not all, AACS crewmembers would like to improove this relationship for obvious reasons, but we are getting tired of holding our hands in your direction.