Showing your ignorance
<<Yeah, the whole handful of pilots that I saw, walking around in circles didn't really rally me for their cause. It's hard to feel sorry for them when it seems that only a dozen or so pilots actually care about these issues. Where were the 300+ picketers that organizers were expecting?>>
I guess you don't really know "the cause". To start the awareness to NJA owners, of which pay our salary through management fees (which have increased over the years without increasing our pilot's paychecks) and to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, which owns NetJets. Whether that helped rally "you" is immaterial.
Your idea that "only a dozen or so pilots" shows ignorance. They walked in shifts and also walked at the airport - static display. You certainly wouldn't have seen them all at the same time. Let's not forget all those people behind the scenes that helped make this happen. There were scores of volunteers involved helping get the pilots to and from the event, booking hotel rooms, donating airline miles to get them there, driving vans from different locations across the country, and the fact that alot of the pilots were already working on the road, in training, limited numbers of days off to travel there, etc. so therefore not all pilots could be there.
For those of us who work at NJA, it was a milestone in itself. After years of what we have witnessed, this is a step in the right direction. We are unified and showing our resolve that we will not stop until we get a fair and decent contract.
<<Yeah, the whole handful of pilots that I saw, walking around in circles didn't really rally me for their cause. It's hard to feel sorry for them when it seems that only a dozen or so pilots actually care about these issues. Where were the 300+ picketers that organizers were expecting?>>
I guess you don't really know "the cause". To start the awareness to NJA owners, of which pay our salary through management fees (which have increased over the years without increasing our pilot's paychecks) and to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, which owns NetJets. Whether that helped rally "you" is immaterial.
Your idea that "only a dozen or so pilots" shows ignorance. They walked in shifts and also walked at the airport - static display. You certainly wouldn't have seen them all at the same time. Let's not forget all those people behind the scenes that helped make this happen. There were scores of volunteers involved helping get the pilots to and from the event, booking hotel rooms, donating airline miles to get them there, driving vans from different locations across the country, and the fact that alot of the pilots were already working on the road, in training, limited numbers of days off to travel there, etc. so therefore not all pilots could be there.
For those of us who work at NJA, it was a milestone in itself. After years of what we have witnessed, this is a step in the right direction. We are unified and showing our resolve that we will not stop until we get a fair and decent contract.
