Such Pussies
 

We pilots are all such pussies. The girls have shown us how to deal with the company properly and they did so with great success. Got everything they wanted. The blueprint is there. What's it going to take for us to wake up and smell the coffee?
Instead of moving forward, we bicker like old women over that which amounts to nothing and find new ways to further divide what is already a woefully fragmented association.
Oh...but we have so much to lose. What crap. Pussies, all of us.
The Company knows that fear trumps courage and they know just how to ratchet up the fear in their pussy pilots.
What do we need to do? Do what the girls did: get over the fear, act out of courage and threaten to strike in August. And then wait.

True. But a CX flight attendant speaking English, Cantonese & probably Mandarin can walk out on strike tomorrow and get a job paying almost exactly the same amount in a shop/ coffee bar/ hotel/ bank within a week in case it goes wrong.

Pilots, not so much.

Unless you stick together.

Which is the whole point.

Such Pussies
 

Well all good then Freehills, just keep bending over then.

I wonder what would happen if they failed to publish the FA roster at noon tomorrow.

I'm sure whatever action the FAU would take would ensure it would be out at noon the following month, and every month after that for a very long time.:ok:

Ron Burgundy, I'm sure you're a great guy (or maybe gal) , but if the chips were down, I wouldn't want you by my side.
Fear grips your insides.

What about "rollng stopages", stop work meetings all the good ol industrial tactics that mean you don't loose a months pay or anything else, one or two days a month, and remember, only captains need to go out, everyone else can turn up to work, and rightfully expect to get paid but the jets cant move. I'll get my hat to head outside and watch the pigs fly. :ouch:

What percentage of workers does their association represent? Maybe they need to teach the pilot body that lesson first, then we can learn to run with them after first learning to crawl.

The FA's have got **** all to lose. Yes, CN's ( just like the freighter guys supposedly carrying the lion's share of CC in ANC, should take the moral high ground and take one for the team..... Bollocks. )

Bingo!!!!!

And what have the FAs lost????

Nothing.

[quote]― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Company have exposed their Achilles tendon: they need to keep airplanes moving or all of them from Ivan on down might as well stay at home. If airplanes continue to be idle for any amount of time Ivan on down might be pulling out their resumes to jump ship.
The girls were smart enough to figure that out and then how to go about it: merely the "THREAT" of strike action was enough to get all they wanted. Overnight.
So what have we learned?
The Company fears strike action from any group that can stop airplanes moving and will do what it takes to prevent strike action.
What's it gonna take?...........courage. Then concerted action. And we know who needs to pick up the ball to get things rolling.
Over..

they didn't "win" anything, they merely retained what the company took away!

Come on Jizz, they didn't "retain", they got it back.

It was definitely a win.

What have you had taken from you over the years and what did you get back? The answer might be "lots and nothing."

I am not commenting on the morality or otherwise of a recruitment ban.

However, during the one in the 'unpleasantness' in the late nineties, Little Ken and Co. squealed about it like stuck pigs. It was one thing that got their attention.

REINHARTH
 

REINHARTH and similar posters. I am going to take a swing with a very high probability of a home run. You are from a younger generation. Never had to fight for anything or had to sacrifice anything.

Not even close son. Not even close. Young ? I wish. And yes, your right. Had everything handed to me on a plate.

I tot they got what was theirs in the first place? no?

No Cody, no generation have rights, we strive to leave it better for the next generation.

A recruitment ban is the way of pussies. It's putting our fight on someone else's shoulders. Why should they fight our fight by staying away? Why would we expect them to? Unconscionable.
We need to have the cohonas that the girls have and lead our own battle.
Whats it gonna take?

I've been on leave, so I'm out of the loop. What exactly happened with the cabin crew?