Mesaba Picketing

[PCL_128]

Pilots for Mesaba Airlines will be conducting informational picketing in MEM, DTW, and MSP today, Thursday the 26th. I will be walking the picket line in DTW with them along with other Pinnacle pilots, and I encourage all ALPA pilots from any carrier to do the same. If you live in any of these cities or can easily catch a flight there, please come and show your support. What happens to Mesaba affects us all. It's time that we stand together. Here's the details of the picketing activity:

In MSP, we will meet at 10:30am outside of the ALPA office at 7900 International Drive, Bloomington, MN by the buses. We will take the buses downtown and picket by the courthouse. If you would like to go downtown directly, please meet at the Crown Plaza Minneapolis Downtown Hotel at 11:00am. The hotel is located at 618 Second Avenue South. The buses will return around 1:30pm.​

In DTW, we will meet at the strike center in the Hilton Suites Detroit Metro Airport hotel at 4:30pm. This is across from the Clarion on Wickman Road. We will take a bus to the airport to picket until 6:30pm.​

In MEM, we will meet at the strike center in the Holiday Inn Select Memphis Airport at 11:45am and will picket until 2pm at the airport.​

 

[GARFF]

Is there a lot of people still leaving Mesaba?

 

[WorldOnTime]

Is there a lot of people still leaving Mesaba?

Just got an email from our MEC (FDX) and it says to meet in the lobby of Terminal B? Any scoop on where is correct?

 

[buckwheat]

why at such times i'm ready to picket at 1030 in dtw and i can't it sounds like anouther way that mesaba management to fu*k over the pilot group.
you mesaba pilots need to make to make a presiiedience and to make this happen now and not later.

 

[buckwheat]

I just read what my mec sent me and if you mesaba pilots even agree to fly for these wages you are lower than dirt. you will be anouther mesa and there is no way you guys should come to this level on discrace. I stand strong with all my PCL brothers and if you cave on this we are done with you. You are setting the standard low now.

 

[Bushhatesyou]

I just read what my mec sent me and if you mesaba pilots even agree to fly for these wages you are lower than dirt. you will be anouther mesa and there is no way you guys should come to this level on discrace. I stand strong with all my PCL brothers and if you cave on this we are done with you. You are setting the standard low now.

Hello pot meet kettel

 

[Northern Lights]

Nobody agreed to anything. The company set the terms without any approval by the unions.

From the latest hotline:

Negotiations Update –

As reported earlier the Negotiating Committee and management returned to the bargaining table this evening. Those talks continue at this time and as a result management has decided to delay the imposition of new contract terms. As of now, our current contract remains in full force and effect.

 

[big shacks]

Buckwheat the troll. Stand strong idiot!

 

[flyslow24]

Don't suggest that Mesaba will want to lower the bar. Signing a growth contract a few years back set Mesaba up to be one of the better paid reginonal airlines.

Unfortuantly in this case most Mesaba employees have families to support. Just walking away from the job isn't as easy as it seems.

What's going on is BS but when it comes to "trying to" restore an industry or giving up your house.... what would you do. Most cannot say unless they have a family.

 

[redflyer65]

Buckwheat is flaming. PCL guys and gals are behind you and we will be there today to show our support. We will be there again if you get to actually strike. This fight is not just Mesaba's, it's everyones. I hope the Mesaba pilots hold the line just like everyone else. What the SLT has done is fraud in my book, and I would like nothing more than to see Jinglepants and Foley get a 24 year sentence like Skilling.

 

[OttoPilot]

I just read what my mec sent me and if you mesaba pilots even agree to fly for these wages you are lower than dirt. you will be anouther mesa and there is no way you guys should come to this level on discrace. I stand strong with all my PCL brothers and if you cave on this we are done with you. You are setting the standard low now.

I don't think your PCL brother are stand strong with you on this statement. You obviously don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I will be there today..... supporting XJ!

 

[Flapjack]

I just spoke to a Mesaba volunteer - he said to show up at the airport Holiday Inn Select, Conference Room #8.

They will have chow there, so that makes it the obvious choice over meeting in the terminal.

See you there!

 

[SELCAL checks]

I just finished walking the line in MSP in support of my brothers at Mesaba. I counted aproximately 150 pilots, flight attendants, and mechanics in attendance. The entire courthouse plaza in MSP was filled with picketing crewmembers. I noticed pilots from Mesaba, Pinnacle, Northwest, United, American Eagle, Comair, ASA, Continental, ExpressJet, and Champion airlines in attendance. Great turnout, strong message. I hope the picketing in DTW and MEM is at least as successful with turnout. This is everybody's fight, no matter who you fly for. It's time for the tide to turn.

 

[xjgearbtch]

Thank you to everyone for your support. It's tough work balancing out personal life and showing up to support an airline you don't even work for. Thank you.

 

[n25na]

Thank you to everyone for your support. It's tough work balancing out personal life and showing up to support an airline you don't even work for. Thank you.

I always thought that was what a union was all about...good to see that union members from different airlines showed up....

 

[Mesabi Miner]

Dtw Picketing

Thanks to ALL pilots/flight attendants,mechanics, etc that showed up for picketing. We had a good turnout. A special thanks to the large showing of Pinnacle pilots that backed us up on the curb. Also thanks to the pilots of Mesa, Spirit, Northwest and anyone I've forgotten. It was pretty cool to see all the different uniforms and all the different job titles on the line at the same time. Cheers.

MM

 

[noonan]

To all of our supporters from other airlines who showed up today, thank you from the bottom of our heart. It has not been an easy year, let alone this past week. It truly was a great sight seeing everyone coming together to support us and hopefully give a semi-happy ending to this travesty.
It must have had some effect on management because they came back to the table today.

 

[OMG7778]

It was great to walk the line with you all today. Stand strong. Stay united, I was amazed at how many different airlines were there, if this is a represnetation of the unity going forward we have a whole new era ahead of us.

 

[mesaba2425]

You have to admit the union is good at making picket signs and creating photo ops. Unfortunately, that's about all it's good at.

 

[xjlifer]

^^^^^^^
Always someone that likes to rain on a parade

 

[mesaba2425]

And Wychor is usually good for a dramatic quote or two.

 

[BighitterLama]

Typical...useless, unproductive, from the cheap seats, comments.

 

[N590MA]

From an XJ guy who could not be there today. Thank you for all your support!

 

[XJ-spartacus]

Although the joint picketing was a nice gesture, tell my how ALPA carriers are united? Is NWA mainline going to walk off the job in defiance of what XJ management is doing? How about PCL? What ALPA has is called symbolic posturing. No amount of picketing will fix that. The simple fact is that XJ pilots will decide their own fate. Weak or strong, they will be judged by the merit of their own convictions.

-Spartacus

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

I know it's been said already but: Thanks to everyone who picketed, and for all the support from the other carriers.