Those of us that have the courage to manage do so knowing that we'll suffer the consequences of insignicant people like you. Your goal is to line your pockets on the efforts and ideas of others. Management's goal is to maintain a working entity that remains profitable and provides a service to those who buy into the service.
"Union leader", I'm deeply flattered. If I was a union leader, I think this is what I would say to you.
It is just the kind of deep-seated contempt for the pilots, on display above, that inspired the pilots at Flight Options to begin their fight for a first contract.
BTW, I do not suffer under the delusion you hope to perpetuate, that you are management. I believe you are nothing more than a hired blogger, as I have said a "union avoidance" functionary, plying your trade. And as with family guy and others of your ilk, you will disappear as soon as the pilots at Flight Options ratify their CBA.
Although I find it repugnant to speak to you directly, this time I will bite. That being said, lets get back to your open contempt for pilots. Although I believe statements such as the one above, are nothing more than carefully considered attempts to push our buttons (taken directly from your union-busting bag of tricks), I think it is noteworthy that you profess to believe that management and management alone creates a profitable company. You so easily discount the contributions of the workforce and snidely dismiss the concept that anyone other than management is capable of contributing to a companies success.
Never mind that in the fractional world it is the pilots who are the face of the company
every day, are the only employees licensed to carry passengers and are charged at a most fundamental level with mitigating our customers risk. Something that, in spite your pharisaical assertions, no manager can fully guarantee, through policy and procedure.
The pilots at Flight Options seek a contract, something every manager, ballplayer, attorney, physician partner, auto buyer and even my local paper carrier, benefits from. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for our work rules and job protections to be put in writing. I also believe that a contract will form the basis of cooperative labor/management relationship (see NetJets, Southwest), will give the pilots a voice in running the company many of them have devoted their lives to for years and contribute greatly to the companies success and profitability. However most would well understand that those of us who have lived through the change associated with five different CEO’s in ten years, need to have it in writing to buy into the program. I also suspect our management understands that as well.
That you would devote so much of your time to undermining our federally protected efforts to acquire something so basic and essential in the aviation industry speaks volumes. That you would attempt to misdirect us with falsehood and boilerplate union-busting rhetoric, speaks of your desperation.
We are on the cusp of achieving our goal and when we do you will move on to some other "project". I will await that time, with full knowledge of what you are and what you are trying to do here.
