I can't recall anything in particular that wasn't run of the mill positive spin. As far as what I taught, I gave examples of when I thought management was wrong in crew rest and pay issues. I did everything short of losing my job (which was threatened because I had made an end run arounf BH to the company legal counsel) when pay for newhires was taken away. I gave the newhires all the ammunition they needed in form of Utah statutes concerning minimum wage. I think if it were taken any farther, management would have said, "You know, you're right. We can't call them employees (with ID cards and jumpseat privileges) if we don't pay them....so we won't give them ID cards or pay their hotel, or give them jumpseat privileges or DOH until they complete training. We won't even charge them for the training. How do you like that?"
My standard line to the newhires about how I felt about SkyWest was that there was no other seat in the airline industry that I would rather be watching from than the bleachers at SkyWest.
I know I didn't vote in favor of the one rate fits all pay raise that most of the pilots did to give Brad an Ace. (I was allowed to vote in that one)
I told newhires if they were pressured to fly when not legal (or even against the Policy Manual) to give me a call if they thought I could help.
Let me digress a bit. In the esarly 70's, I was catching a hop on a T-29 from Echterdingen (Stuttgart, Germany) to Mildenhall, England. As I was the first there, I settled in toward the rear and parted the pretty blue curtains on the right side of the aircraft to watch for the arrival of the party that was allowing me to ride. In a minute, the Flight Steward (a mid-grade USAF seargent) in his Blue blazer came up to me and asked if I wouldn't mind closing the curtains. I didn't mind at all but asked him why. He said that it might cause the general to wonder why all the curtains were closed except for one and he wanted to keep his job. I resolved at that point that I never wanted a job that required me to keep the curtains lined up.
Since I'm now my own boss, I don't have that problem. I presume that anyone working for anyone else does so because they think it is worth the aggrevation or soon will be. I can't imagine staying in a situation that provides only long-term aggrevation.
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One more thing. I was gone by the time the SAPA coup took place and, if I understand it correctly, that would have been a turning point in my promotion of SAPA.