Folks, enough.
Arguing with Slave is like arguing with B19. He has nothing new or relevant to add.
Slave, seriously, you need to read the by-laws, both yours and national's, to have a true understanding of what went down. It's quite obvious you haven't.
What IS obvious, is that rather than do the necessary legwork to find out what this is all about exactly, you're choosing to simply believe what you're being told by IBT officials. Maybe that's why you'll never move out from under the screen name you've chosen. Blindly accepting what those in power tell you is a guarantee that you'll be taken advantage of. We have the utmost and highest level of respect for our leaders at NJA, but they are questioned about decisions and directions they've chosen on an almost daily basis. And they must respond with full transparency, else risk losing the support of this pilot group. We had previously asked that of the IBT. They refused. Look where that got them.
The NJA pilots and union leaders have been nothing but upfront with the FLOPS folks. It was us, not IBT, that aided and guided and FINANCED your move to become organized. Now we say that things were done illegally by the IBT and two of your own, and all of a sudden we're not to be believed or trusted.
Please, I'm asking politely, before you attempt to explain things away, or accept ANYONE'S word on blind faith, read the by-laws. Oh, and you might want to brush up on US law too, as what they tried to pull with the banks is a felony.
As has been explained to you multiple times already, just because the GP said what they did was okay, doesn't make it okay. And the best part is, you don't have to take my word for it. You don't have to take any of NJA's leadership's word for it. You don't have to take anybody at their word for it who is posting here. Just do the freaking research yourself and it will be OBVIOUS who is telling the truth. That's all I'm asking you to do.
By the way, at the time this all went down, we were still part of IBT1108, as has been pointed out MULTIPLE times to you at this point. Any, and I do mean ANY argument you present that involves us not being part of 1108 and therefore having no say-so is patently false. Up until yesterday, we were still very much a part of 1108.
As to your argument that since we have our money anyway, what's the big deal. It goes like this: laws were broken. Should we really just ignore that? But maybe on a more ethical level, promises were made, in writing, that were broken too, and by association, a serious trust was breached. If you don't think that will have a serious negative impact on the FLOPS pilots, then you're truly in denial.
I have no more to say on the subject. I wish the FLOPS pilots well. They are still deserving of a good contract and a QOL commenserate with the new fractional industry standard.
