aislehopper
Senior
- Aug 20, 2002
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Obviously there is money. We are receiving mail - both electronic and snail mail to our homes. Someone is paying for the phone calls. Someone is paying Danny to pop up and answer questions. You are getting support from FPL "volunteers" like Shriver to help you. You have afa lawyers working on your behalf.I think you need to understand that Delta AFA activists are operating without any money, on a volunteer basis
You are not without money. You have resources.
and in a battle where the deck is automatically stacked against them (getting a majority of cards signed by other f/a's and not in a work place, the cards expire in a year, the vote is approved and yet there is no requirement to vote "no", you just toss it in the trash)
The system is set up that way because you have the burden of proof that we want a union. If you cannot get these things that you call a "high mountain," it is because our coworkers are lukewarm to the idea of the afa. The system is set up that way for a purpose. To keep a few from cramming a union down the throats of the majority.
We believe that a union is not in our best interest. Why should someone cut them a break when we do not agree with their perception of "our" best interest? Be civil, yes. Listen, yes. But to roll over and let that person advocate a position that we feel is against our best interest and do nothing, no.--this is a big mountain to climb and for you to not cut a break for your fellow Delta FAs who are fighting for what they believe is in not only their best interest, but yours as well against such odds is a bit rigid and unforgiving.
The pro union people have a multi million dollar union backing them. In the last campaign, the afa spent close to 7 million on the campaign - and lost. You have your FPL organizers coming in and supporting you. Case in point, Danny is on this board doing that very thing - supporting you and the Delta campaign.The anti-union FAs have a multi-million dollar company to back them up. A company with lots of money and anti-union consultants at their ready (which they pay millions to). Please try to put yourself in the activists' shoes. Do you think they are giving so much of themselves just to fill their time?? I'll try to go back to keeping my cool if you try to be a little more tolerant and understanding of the human condition.
Thanks
If you can give up your time and volunteer for free and advocate your position, why do you not think that someone on the other side of the issue is not willing to volunteer their time to advocate their side of the issue?
You should follow your own advice and put yourself in the anti-afa flight attendants shoes. Just because they disagree with you does not mean that they are all of the adjectives that you have been calling them.
Be civil. Most people can agree to disagree.