Fr8Dog, how frustrating for you! The FUD mill is a huge industry. I wonder how much money that
should have gone to the Options pilotgroup has been wasted by the FLOPS?
The Fudspinner is on my ignore list so I didn't realize he was still annoying you guys with his BS posts about my family. The NJ pilots know that my husband flies the line (out right now)
and does Union work. And as far as the stipend (that barely covers what a pilot can make in OT, holiday pay, etc) goes, NJASAP leaders
don't receive it even though they're working for the pilotgroup just as much as they did in 1108. So let's see...we're down over $5,000 so far...but we still contributed to the NJASAP fund and to the account set up for the Options pilots. (I encourage NJ pilots to donate to those worthy causes). While I'm documenting my family's
selfishness and greed...
I should add that my husband lost out on $10,000 of income because his joint-committee projects to help the Company meant he was a year behind or so in becoming an instructor. Not to mention all the lost OT, holiday pay before the Union starting trying to offset lost income from volunteer service to the pilotgroup. Now that I've dealt with that red herring, let's expose the rest of the FUD stinking up this thread.
1108 gave the Options pilots a fighting chance and the best hope they had to WIN (as in achieve despite an uphill battle) a fair contract. Union leaders can only show pilots the way; they still had to staff their committees, become a tight group, and stand up to management's sleazy tactics --directed by the union-busting firm F&H. The Options pilotgroup has had their work cut out for them, but they have made steady progress. They know
exactly who has been trying to destroy their will to fight corporate greed. The understandably irate threads on the subject are pointing straight to the
Sheering Gang and their thug behavior expressly designed to harm the FltOps pilots and families. The village idiot can stand in the square spouting nonsense but those under fire know exactly where the rounds are coming from.
Options pilots can unfortunately, but easily, identify with the following passage from
Confessions Of A Union Buster: "I come from a very dirty business. The enemy was the collective spirit. I got hold of that spirit while it was still a seedling; I poisoned it, choked it, bludgeoned it if I had to, anything to be sure it would never blossom into a united work force. ...the war they suspected was being waged against them was a real one....supervisors were taught to despise and fear unions...This manipulation is just one of the dirty tricks that have transformed the war on organized labor into a billion-dollar industry...of ruthless campaigns of treachery and terror..."
With respect for those on the frontline,
Netjetwife
