Rez O. Lewshun
Save the Profession
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- Jan 19, 2004
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With the vote in the past and the future of the jetblue pilots in flux and in question as a unified group....
Sorbie and Evans are two pilots that took character to task and made a respected and honorable effort...
They simply offered a vehicle with the ability for the JB pilot group to fashion themselves. By creating a policy manual and C&BL, they put themselves between a rock and a hard place. If they provided no documents then they would have been chided for being to vague. However, the documents gave the BoBs the leverage to argue the details. A diversionary tactic...
It was never about the details. It was about the fundamental basics of representation.....
In addition, too many JB pilots were looking for a service and not self rule.
It is easy to stay quiet and keep your head down, showing up to work and doing your job.... Or worse justifying a crap sandwhich. Or shameful to cut down the effort instead of trying to assist the fundamentals. Sorbie and Evans did none of it.... They might not have been successful.... But at least they had the character and fortitude to offer the JB pilots a chance...
Better to have gone down swinging, than to have never stepped up to the plate....
Sorbie and Evans are two pilots that took character to task and made a respected and honorable effort...
They simply offered a vehicle with the ability for the JB pilot group to fashion themselves. By creating a policy manual and C&BL, they put themselves between a rock and a hard place. If they provided no documents then they would have been chided for being to vague. However, the documents gave the BoBs the leverage to argue the details. A diversionary tactic...
It was never about the details. It was about the fundamental basics of representation.....
In addition, too many JB pilots were looking for a service and not self rule.
It is easy to stay quiet and keep your head down, showing up to work and doing your job.... Or worse justifying a crap sandwhich. Or shameful to cut down the effort instead of trying to assist the fundamentals. Sorbie and Evans did none of it.... They might not have been successful.... But at least they had the character and fortitude to offer the JB pilots a chance...
Better to have gone down swinging, than to have never stepped up to the plate....