FLOPS Strike ballots are being sent out !!!

[lookin4better]

No you are not a scab..... unless you cross the line to fly a FLOPS airplane....if you flying a trip that your charter company assigns to you, and its for a FLOPS owner ( you may or may not know this) .... you are in no way whatsoever a scab.

Its just like AA striking and passengers going to UA or any other airline.... the pilots flying the striking carriers passengers are not scabs.

The only reason I bring this up is someone earlier on this thread floated his pipe dream of charter pilots who fly trips for FLOPS owners when FLOPS is on strike will be scabs. Its laughable and wont stick..... and I sure wont refuse a trip and get fired.

 

[ultrarunner]

OK how about this...I'm a furloughed FLOPs pilot currently working with x Charter Company. FLOPs hires my company to do a trip. Am I a scab because I'm furloughed from FLOPs?

Good grief, NO.

I'll speak clearly and slowly......

A SCAB is a person who crosses a legal/active picket line for the sole purpose of taking your job. That's IT!

Good grief.....

 

[lookin4better]

You are 100% correct!

Trying telling that to TurboHonda.....he has a catch all definition to make himself happy.

 

[glasspilot]

Actually, anybody who flies a plane while FLOPS is on strike is a SCAB. Also, if you pilot a boat in a harbor you too would be a scab.

If you fly a kite..scab. If you get high...you're a scab. All the airline pilots...scabs, the pax too. In fact, if you look up then you are a scab. Ironically, if you skin your knee your not a scab, but if you put a band aid on it you would be as you're now hiding a scab.

 

[ultrarunner]

You are 100% correct!

Trying telling that to TurboHonda.....he has a catch all definition to make himself happy.

Yeah, Turbo is a little out of touch with reality.....no doubt about that.

 

[TurboHonda]

You are 100% correct!

Trying telling that to TurboHonda.....he has a catch all definition to make himself happy.

It appears that TurboHonda made a lasting impression on you.

I haven’t posted in weeks and you’re still acting righteously indignant. What’s the deal? A strike hasn’t happened yet and you appear to be looking for approval to jump into the middle of someone else’s hardship. Do you really think that you can assist FLOPS management and not get some dirt on you?

For the record: I never said that FLOPS owners couldn’t find alternate transportation. That’s absolutely their right. I do have a problem with FLOPS conducting business as usual while their own pilots are striking or locked out.

Anyone who knowingly assists FLOPS in such an endeavor is less than honorable, in my opinion.

 

[fischman]

If you get high...you're a scab.

Crap...

 

[William Holiday]

The week is getting thin.

 

[jonjuan]

Where's NJw to provide inspiration?

 

[glasspilot]

Crap...

I put that one in there just for you fish....

 

[cherry20's]

Where's NJw to provide inspiration?

Don't mention her! She might come back...

 

[dime line]

Don't mention her! She might come back...

Dont need her, we have Cherry

 

[William Holiday]

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Tick Tock...........

 

[jetwash]

That clock will keep ticking until our negotiators grow a pair of balls and finally say enough is enough and set a date.

 

[gunfyter]

That clock will keep ticking until our negotiators grow a pair of balls and finally say enough is enough and set a date.

Been released for self-help?

 

[jetwash]

They got scope, retirement and benefits done yesterday and gave the company another 2 weeks to settle money and vacation.

We were all expecting it all to be done or to be released.

It looks like it is going to be the 12th now.

 

[dime line]

As much as I want to get pissed at the union and company the same, I know the union didn't want for this to go another 2 weeks. But this sucks, another 2 more weeks into busy season, and our leverage is going by by. What I don't get, is the mediator even said we have gone past his schedule, so why another 2 weeks? The one good thing is they are negotiating.

 

[johnsonrod]

Time to STICK IT to the idiots in FLOPS management. Seriously, I hope you make them pay. Time to respect your front line, customer-facing employees...

 

[cougar12]

The negotiator wants to retire so I don't think it will go much longer. If it does the pilots will start putting a lot of pressure on their negotiating team to pull the plug and start the cooling off process. Plus, there has to be a few on the negotiating team that are already screaming!

 

[cougar12]

Half of FLOPS negotiating team is a joke! I think a couple of the brain trusts get company issued round nose scissors and glue sticks so they don't hurt themselves. (Short bus JC,BT,JS) That is the real reason things are going so slowly. They don't eat or sh!*t unless they are told it's okay.