FLOPS Strike ballots are being sent out !!!

[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.

 

[skyismyoffice]

What I don't get, is the mediator even said we have gone past his schedule, so why another 2 weeks?

I'm thinking that he really believes that a t/a can/will be reached. He probably also realizes that a strike will end the company.

 

[jetwash]

I'm thinking that he really believes that a t/a can/will be reached. He probably also realizes that a strike will end the company.

Not the strike, It will be the 30 days before the strike when the owners and customers start cashing in their cards.

 

[Freedom]

Now if that is not LEGAL financial pressure.....

Not the strike, It will be the 30 days before the strike when the owners and customers start cashing in their cards.

.... I don't know what is.


Nice to see Management finally has just as much to lose as the Pilots. Perhaps that will lead to them putting their GREED aside, in their own interests.

What a waste of 3-4 years. How anyone who truly knew this Plot Group could have ever thought the Fud and Harrasment tactics would break this Pilot Group, I will never understand.

Even those of us no longer on the Property know the difference between Right and Wrong, and are still in full support of those Pilots who remain.

Good Luck Guys.


Freedom is NOT Free

 

[gunfyter]

Good Luck guys....

 

[skanza]

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...

How? What's the plan to "stick it to them"? I'll bet nothing illegal for or against the company, right?
Rrrriiiiiiiiiiiight...

 

[CA1900]

Not going the extra mile to cover the company f-ups will do more than enough.

Good luck, guys.

 

[OldCrow]

You don't fly

My Dear,
Ms. Schumza....if you were (which I'm sure you aren't) flying the line, you would know how much they are pushing the jets, and Pilots to make mission. There is no, slight-of-hand double secert check list with spy decoder ring.
Its clear that you truly take to heart the info you get at morning ground lovers staff meeting...or what ever kind of motivational, "lets have a great Flight Options day" there in CGF.....so you go grab you another cup of coffee, and keep a sharp eye out on some prime butt to kiss or shirt tails to ride on. I'll keep the MWS from going off in flight.

 

[ProFracPilot]

CA is spot on.

The ONLY thing pilots have to do is NOT correct the screw ups made by the OCC. This alone will place a great deal of strain on the network. A significant amount of time and energy during my 8 day tour is spent catching mistakes made by Owner Services - OCC, then making sure the owners / charter customers never see those mistakes. This is "the extra mile" and is done in addition to the immense requirements placed on me as a captain. I get tired of doing other peoples job. I can - and will - just step aside and let the train wrecks happen.

Time to git'-er-done, management.

 

[o2bflyn]

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.

:laugh:

 

[ultrarunner]

If I go to band-camp and have a dream about banging turbohonda's chick in a FLOPS Beechjet, am I a scab?