Court Injunction Against USAPA GRANTED

[TWA Dude]

Injunction (Doc. No. 10) against USAPA and HEREBY ORDERS:
1. USAPA and its members, agents, and employees, and all persons and
organizations acting by, in concert with, through, or under it, or by and through its order, are
enjoined from permitting, instigating, authorizing, encouraging, participating in, approving, or
continuing any interference with Plaintiff’s airline operations, including, but not limited to, any
slowdown, strike, work stoppage, sick-out, work to rule campaign, or any concerted refusal to
perform normal pilot operations in violation of the RLA, pending a hearing on the permanent
injunction.
2. USAPA shall take all reasonable steps within its power to prevent the aforesaid
actions and to refrain from continuing the aforesaid actions if commenced, including, but not
limited to, the following:
a. Instructing all pilots represented by USAPA and employed by Plaintiff to resume
their normal working schedule and practices and providing Plaintiff a copy of all
such instructions;
b. Notifying all pilots represented by USAPA and employed by Plaintiff, by the
most expeditious means possible, of the issuance, contents, and meaning of this
Preliminary Injunction and providing Plaintiff a copy of all such notices;
c. Including in such notice a directive from USAPA to US Airways’s pilots who are
engaging in a concerted refusal to perform normal pilot operations, including but
not limited to, slow taxiing, writing up all maintenance items, calling in fatigued,
delaying flights, refusing to answer a call from the scheduling, refusing to fly an
aircraft that meets the requirements for flight, or refusing to accept voluntary or
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overtime flying, to cease and desist all such activity and to cease and desist all
exhortations or communications encouraging same.
d. Posting the notice described above on Defendant USAPA’s internet websites and
providing Plaintiff a copy of the notices;
e. Including the contents of such notice on any and all recorded telephone hotlines
under control of USAPA, until such time as the Court has acted on Plaintiff’s
Motion for a Permanent Injunction, and providing Plaintiff a copy of all such
messages; and
f. Distributing the contents of such notice through all non-public communication
systems maintained by USAPA, including any telephone trees, text message lists,
pilot-to-pilot communication systems, or similar systems, and providing Plaintiff
a copy of the notices.
3. USAPA is prohibited from including in such notices (or distributing
contemporaneously with such notices) any statements that are intended or could reasonably be
interpreted to mean that pilots should continue to engage in the previously-described conduct
notwithstanding the Preliminary Injunction.
4. USAPA shall report to the Court by 5 p.m. on October 4, 2011, by sworn
affidavit, the methods used to effect the notice described above to all USAPA-represented pilots,
and furnish to the Court copies of all notices required to be furnished to the Plaintiff under the
Court’s Order.

 

[TWA Dude]

To the Easties who are wondering what this means:

If it's broken, write it up. If you're sick, call in sick. Behave like a professional pilot and you've nothing to fear from the courts or the company. Not every Eastie participated in the illegal work actions but if it continues expect many terminations and perhaps court fines. (Just ask the APA about ignoring a court injunction.)

 

[Sandhawk]

To the Easties who are wondering what this means:

If it's broken, write it up. If you're sick, call in sick. Behave like a professional pilot and you've nothing to fear from the courts or the company. Not every Eastie participated in the illegal work actions but if it continues expect many terminations and perhaps court fines. (Just ask the APA about ignoring a court injunction.)

This whole thing is a prelude to....you not getting an LOA 93 "Snap-Back"!!

BOHICA

:laugh:

 

[Bwipilot]

HEREBY ORDERS: USAPA pilots to cease
writing up all maintenance items, calling in fatigued.

That's laughable--is the judge an idiot?

 

[scoreboardII]

interesting to see the FAA's take on a court directing pilots not to call in fatigued.

 

[TWA Dude]

That's laughable--is the judge an idiot?

I don't know. But he is a Republican.

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

This is what happens when you use safety as a bargaining tactic. Now all write-ups become suspicious, all sick calls require a note and fatigue calls can be scrutinized.

Way to go USAPA. Well done.

 

[Metrojet]

To the Easties who are wondering what this means:

If it's broken, write it up. If you're sick, call in sick. Behave like a professional pilot and you've nothing to fear from the courts or the company. Not every Eastie participated in the illegal work actions but if it continues expect many terminations and perhaps court fines. (Just ask the APA about ignoring a court injunction.)

I find it incredible that US AIRWAYS finds a judge to fast track a decision against the union, but Kasher has 24 months or longer to issue a decision in LOA 93.

But the way the Judge writes the decision, I guess you better not write any maint issues up or call in sick (east or west) since you'll be in violation of the courts order (as well as be in violation of FAR's for flying a plane that is not airworthy or flying fatigued?)

Metrojet

 

[xrated]

I find it incredible that US AIRWAYS finds a judge to fast track a decision against the union, but Kasher has 24 months or longer to issue a decision in LOA 93.

Metrojet

Don't worry Metro, the LOA 93 decision is right around the corner...and you aren't going to like it!

 

[thunderworm]

how can you be ordered to accept voluntary overtime? isn't that what voluntary means. and who is to say what a reasonable taxi speed is. This is ridiculous that a judge who knows nothing about aviation is telling pilots how to operate their planes. Isn't this what we get paid for, safe operation of aircraft? This stuff has got to stop or we will have a member of congress write our SOPs based on xyz airline's profitability.