Its funny that Plays with Cods fails to understand that the AMFA members earned the unemployment benifits for their years of service to an ungrateful company. He also fails to mention anything about the millions of dollars that Northworst and its executives have pocketed and bilked the tax payers out of since the early 1990s.
You know, I can hardly get through reading these posts... not just in this thread, but in the last five or six in this forum. Most of you have just about nothing to say that's of substance... I'd like to go count how many times you each say 'SCAB' and 'SUPERSCAB' and go on and on... do you realize how stupid this makes you all look? Only a few of you have even kept these threads moving by actually writing something of meaning. I've supported the striking workers of NW in the past, but as I read all these posts, I'm not so sure.
To compound my frustration, I'm surprised such an altruistic group of people would believe you are entitled to unemployment pay for lost wages incurred during a strike that you voted for. That is the responsibility of yourselves and the union that represents you, not me and everyone else that doesn't work for NW. Do I agree with the manner which NW management handled this entire situation? No. But then again, I didn't put my foot down and say "I'm not going to take this anymore." You did. And that was your decision. Your other choices include, but are not limited to, moving to Atlanta, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, etc. and continue in the industry, or get another job where you are now. It's not ideal, but then again, neither is the situation you're in now, which isn't ENTIRELY managements fault, I might add.
I think you all need to take a hard look at the way you speak, and how it makes you look.
SCAB, shut your pie hole!
'Cods, shut up before you make yourself look any more dense than you already do....but then your a scab...not possible.
They also have a SCAB HIT LIST fund and you're at the top!
Why don't you just EAT S##T instead? Loser!
Remind me if we ever cross paths, to do this to you SCAB...
I suspect that many of you will come back and say you don't care how you appear to others, and that at least you're not a SCAB. But, without people like PTO, you wouldn't even be here having this conversation because the airline would have folded or planes would be falling out of the sky.... and you'd be minus the option of even thinking of working for NW again. Maybe many of you probably do not plan to rejoin the company, and in that case I'd have to ask what you're doing here still arguing about what happened instead of concentrating your resources and time on your own future.
Bottom line: in business, [stuff] happens. The NW mechs took a big hit, no question. But it was a voluntary hit, and you need to take responsibility for yourselves and your own actions. The Red Tail movie was a good and constructive response, for example. Unemployment is not the answer. That's just placing your own problems on someone else. And, for goodness sake, respect is not given, but earned. Show people why you're worth what you have gone on strike for, and start representing yourselves as prudent and upstanding citizens.
