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However, the main difference between me and you Rockie, is that I don't EXPECT someone else to look after me and give me everything I want or think I deserve and unrelentingly whine about it when they don't!

WTF are you talking about? We provide a service for compensation and benefits just like you. I EXPECT contracts to be honoured. I EXPECT democratic rights be respected and not voided for purely commercial or ideological reasons.

You suggest you would just take it up the ass and walk away without complaint looking for another path. Pathetic if true, but I personally don't believe it. I think you're just full of shit.

Your contract was honoured and now it's expired.

Not quite true, Air Canada often violates the Pilot's Contract, as the number of contract grievance cases that it loses will attest to.

you guys will all be in for a rude awakening when you are forced to live like the rest of us

Err.... BL I thought you previously suggested that you're really well off ? Please stick to A story in the interest of keeping it interesting.

You bore me with your supposed revelations that the Canadian public doesn't care about the relevant social issues here. It doesn't change the fact that Air Canada pilots will not give up their livelihood for the sake of somebody else's short term convenience. Not even yours however important you think it is.

Public support is just not that important because we are the employees. Public support is important to the company because they are they entity that has to make money, and so far the company has not given two shits what the public thinks.

Why don't you take your shallow, one dimensional rage and direct it at people who actually have the power to change how thing are going?

I realize there are alot of people who are kind of in to deep to pull out. But for alot of the pilots, (like the bottom 25-30%, there are way better jobs out there. Obviously not enough jobs for everyone, but they are there. (Some corporate jobs, offer a much better lifestyle, with comparable pay).

It's amazing that I have been able to get through life, have Does the Union teach classes in deflection? You all seem to be masters. Try looking in the mirror and cleaning your own kitchen before rinsing the management down the drain. The arrogance being displayed by AC employees (not just pilots) is startling, you guys will all be in for a rude awakening when you are forced to live like the rest of us and realise that you are not special or above the general population. So stop trying to hold us hostage, we won't take it and we will not return.

BL

And yes Rockie, the membership does have the ability to enact change, you just haven't figured out how to do it in a responsible and beneficial manner.

The employees had an opportunity to seize an extremely large scale of public support and instead chose to alienate customers and act like spoiled brats on national TV. I am not sure what leader rallied the union members to believe this would be advisable in order to gain support but I would suggest finding out and distancing yourselves from them as much as possible. To the general public, you are the villains keeping us from or inconveniencing our business, vacations, family and friends not the company. DEAL WITH IT!!

Your damn right I am proud of my achievements and I have already made the call to westjet, first trip is tomorrow so don't worry about me, which I know you won't, since I am just an insignificant former customer.

BverLuver, I think you're your comments are quite "inappropriate" and "disrespectful" to Rockie. Perhaps an apology is in order.

"BverLuver" does make 1 good point

I know nothing about anything

Give me the extra money to invest in my RRSP as I see fit and on my retirement day a handshake and maybe a plaque is all I need from them. This is coming from someone with a DB plan.

Something like 75% of Canadians don't even have company pensions, they have to make their own future.

Which likely will be explained as another deflection, unions are bad, them vs us blah, blah AC hate.