This one's to the haters ....
You know , I still wear my play fair us airways T-shirt from time to time … the ones that we made up for our protests ..
I also remember that day we were protesting outside in front of corporate when the wind was blowing so hard the sheet metal roof from the nearby buildings started to come off , heck you couldn’t even hold a protest sign up it was so strong .. But we stood solid outlasting the storm .
Can anyone count all of the protests that we’ve had ? too numerous to even remember…. .After the first TA went down, our spirits were low for sometime , but we bounded back , and we showed up strong to fight to get another TA .. Our station did what no other station in this entire fleet service network ever did … fight . From protesting outside of corporate , inside of the terminal ,outside on the tarmac , we let our voices and our solidarity be seen and heard .While the rest of fleet service squabbled over union leadership we maintained the true fight , we kept the fire burning .
Today the same people who praised our solidarity when they saw our you tube videos now decry it , but what you saw wasn’t even the tip of the iceberg , it was what you didn’t see , what you didn’t hear … it was the sacrifices made by the many and the few ,who’s names will never be mentioned yet who’s actions spoke loudly enough to be heard by the media …
There should have been an army behind us , instead there was nothing but air ….Time and time again we set the example , we set the bar , but none ever rose to lift it … If there’s one thing you cannot accuse PHX of , it’s not trying , we tried , we tried and tried in vain .. I ask a question that I already know the answer too , where were the videos from the other stations and hubs of protests? Why is it when we sent out and posted directions and times of how to attend our protests that there is only one man to his credit who came from out of town to join us ? Was EVERY flight from every station and hub full that day ?
We in PHX are a union , the other workers , their in a corporation. Not making those quarterly results and transition progress? Why, elect a new governing body to produce new results , having trouble with the other party ? CALL IN THE LAWYERS!!!…the lawyers don’t work ? Send new negotiators back to the table and tell them to get something done in there !!
You accuse US of not showing solidarity ?
We’ll know your solid when your standing shoulder to shoulder with us !