Travel Management, a danger to us all....

[Praetorian]

Ocean Reef!

Ocean Reef, at night!!

 

[rettofly]

Ocean Reef!

 

[Helmsalee]

"Ocean Reef!"

But they do have great crew meals.

 

[AeroBoy]

I think you guys have beat this XO Jet rumor to death. Know-one is buying it anymore.

You can call it beating it to death or anything else you want to. That won't change the impending outcome, though...

 

[SDCFI]

You can call it beating it to death or anything else you want to. That won't change the impending outcome, though...

You sound like the DO at Flexjet, and that's not a compliment. He's always prancing around recurrent telling the pilots how good things are coming yada yada yada but he can't tell us what they are. Don't want to steal the thunder ya know. It doesn't help, so either post some useful information or go away.

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

TMC is starting to head in the right direction. Since management won't even discuss improving the working conditions, the pilots are going to start an organizing drive. Managers are taking pilots out to dinner, at company expense, to try and convince them a union isn't needed. We will see what happens.

 

[dime line]

TMC is starting to head in the right direction. Since management won't even discuss improving the working conditions, the pilots are going to start an organizing drive. Managers are taking pilots out to dinner, at company expense, to try and convince them a union isn't needed. We will see what happens.

That's funny, FLOPS management did the Exact same thing with us when we were thinking about unionizing. Must be in the universal playbook

 

[993_Pilot]

Just wait until KR starts telling them, "I am the best representative that the pilots could have"... or some similar thing.

 

[GlorifiedCabbie]

Thanks 993. I forget about that one. A good laugh to start the day.

 

[dime line]

Just wait until KR starts telling them, "I am the best representative that the pilots could have"... or some similar thing.

Yea I remember that one

 

[shanes123]

Yes me too. " I am the best union steward you guys could have". What a joker

 

[windshear73]

TMC Pilots have been working on the organizing process since the beginning of this year guys. Their card drive started on August 20, 2014, and met the IBT card threshold within two months, and then they were all off to the National Mediation Board for signature verification. The NMB verified the required showing of interest, and set an election which started today, December 1. The polls close on December 22 at 14:00, and they'll have an answer shortly after.

 

[rajflyboy]

Look on the bright side

Management might give each pilot an RV of his choice from the owners former company

 

[CMI]

Look on the bright side

Management might give each pilot an RV of his choice from the owners former company

Ha ha, that's a good one! Probably not.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/12/26305.htm

In the fall of 2008, Mart claims he found out that Liegl had stolen "hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from factory vending machines owned by Forest River." Liegl also required the company to buy supplies and use airline charter services from other companies he owned, at drastically inflated prices, "pouring millions of dollars into Liegl's pockets over a period of years," the lawsuit states.

http://www.law360.com/articles/312655/berkshire-dodges-former-exec-s-whistleblower-suit

Mart says he reported the alleged fraud to Buffett, who is not named in the suit. He then confronted Liegl, seeking his assurance that he would retire as promised, but Liegl verbally abused Mart and threatened to kill him, according to the complaint.

 

[rajflyboy]

Ha ha, that's a good one! Probably not.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/12/26305.htm

In the fall of 2008, Mart claims he found out that Liegl had stolen "hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from factory vending machines owned by Forest River." Liegl also required the company to buy supplies and use airline charter services from other companies he owned, at drastically inflated prices, "pouring millions of dollars into Liegl's pockets over a period of years," the lawsuit states.

http://www.law360.com/articles/312655/berkshire-dodges-former-exec-s-whistleblower-suit

Mart says he reported the alleged fraud to Buffett, who is not named in the suit. He then confronted Liegl, seeking his assurance that he would retire as promised, but Liegl verbally abused Mart and threatened to kill him, according to the complaint.

interesting

RV's to Airplanes and same old same old

 

[windshear73]

We won! 120 yes, and 57 no of 192 eligible voters. TMC Jets is now an organized pilot group!

 

[CA1900]

Congratulations, guys!

It's a long hard road to a good contract, but it's worth the struggle. Having worked for unionized and non-unionized aviation companies in the past, I'd never go back.

 

[AftCG182]

We won! 120 yes, and 57 no of 192 eligible voters. TMC Jets is now an organized pilot group!

Ohhh, to be a fly on the wall at EKM this afternoon


Congrats, my brothers and sisters!

 

[The Architect]

The Pilots have spoken

This is a great example of the process at work. The majority made their choice and will get the representation sought.

The numbers seeking representation just keep growing in this part of the industry.

Netjets, Flight Options, CitationAir, TMC... Perhaps things at Flexjet will cause them to follow.

 

[windshear73]

http://teamster.org/news/2014/12/travel-management-company-pilots-vote-join-teamsters