Morally the company are wrong in sacking the 49ers but their right to do so, outside D'nG, is in our COS.
I dont understand your point Kubota. They maybe w@nkers but they didnt break the letter of the law.
I am more than willing to help fund the 49ers/AOA and try to take the company to court but if they fail, they lose...thats it. Over and out. Stomping our feet and shaking our fists year in year out has done squat.
Furthermore, if the company didnt break any rules (technically) then why victimise new joiners with a ban 13+months later?
The most bizarrely correct thing you said is "why should they". Indeed! The company is prospering....they really dont give a to$$ about the AOA at the moment. New chariots on order, recruiting going well, unexpected profits for the shareholders (at the expense of 16,000 13mth bonuses!).
Our come back is more shaking of the fists; a 10th year of threatening to strike.....but they know we never will. We never have walked the walk have we? JT sleeps very soundly me thinks.
Finally if it comes to the crunch and knowing that they can fire us, legally, by DHL parcels....... who will actually strike IF the AOA ordered it?
Sadly the 400 non-union members and soon to 250 odd 'replacement workers' are going to be your achilles heel...... a weakness of our own making.
Im sick of all this posturing and bravado....and Im sick of a few ******s threatening our new joiners. You simply cant find anyone useful to bully.
Drop the silly ban. Take the extra 3million in subscriptions and take management to court with a united pilot body.
The AOA is an essential part of our lives and we have alot to thank past committees for; we still do have a pretty good wicket here thanks to the AOA.
What would scare management the most, I believe, is a united pilot body not this fractionalised 3 ring circus we have now. Divided we shall fail and the ban divides us more each day.
Im off on leave..... bye.
Last edited by tone-uncage-fire; 14th August 2002 at 01:07.