Some suggestions for the line pilot:
Keeps records on everything. Keep a little book in your pocket and write down the name, tine and subject of everyone you interact with at work.

If you need to call maintenance, use your cell phone, not the radio. That gives you a record of number and time. Only call them once. They are busy. Let them do their job. If you need lav. servicing, call them once! Let them do their job. If you need catering.....get the idea?
Keep track of your in, and out times. Compare then with your NS. Call your chief if they differ. If you have a delay use the entry: FLFlt#/St Sta>DM.If it is not correct, file a P-2 and then counter it. If it is coded EWS (employee work stoppage) treat it accordingly.
Keep track of your duty times. Support each other. If you are not paranoid, at least pretend you are for the time being.
Do not tolerate insubordination in the operation of your flight. Not from gate, service, crew etc.
Do not rush to comply. Pretend that we have a functional airline.
File observer reports with SPC about every anomaly during your flight day. File ASAPs about every safety anomaly. Do not carry gripes to get home, if that is your gig.
New subject:
SPC has scheduled picking for Tues. next. We have canceled the proposed meeting for next Tues. so JD and I can be at the picket. The meeting for Monday is still a go. I will attempt the next one at the airport for the that travel in.
We are going to have quick small meetings around the domicile area when we get more time. For now rest assured that we are not tweaking a failed LBFO, or TA.
If AA wants to emerge from BK with a contract they had better have new and acceptable positions before they ask us to come meet with them.
We are not going to beg, we are not going to negotiate against ourselves. We are not going to make up for their screw-ups. If they want to make this job a living hell, so be it. How long do you think it can last before a total met down of the system? If the corporation, AA BOO and UCC don't understand this they are delusional. We have had enough, we have given enough.
We are not all the same.
Did I mention, We are not all the same.
The company's addition of "me too clauses" to attain agreements with the other work groups is their problem, not ours. They use the excuse constantly. We can't give you (X) or we'll have to give it to everyone.
Don't put yourself in a position where your actions can be put in question. Keep your eyes open, and your head on a swivel.
Still waiting for the chief pilots that made the promise about quitting if the 1113 was imposed to follow up.
The CEOs hollow assertions that his employees are behind him in emerging as a stand alone are rubbish, and nothing could be further than the truth. His employees would enjoy and old fashioned burning at the stake with his minions thereto attached.
Consolidation is the wave in the industry, and most of the acceptable dance partners are already waltzing with others. We've got few choices, if you would call a single option a choice.
It isn't with the Centerport crew running things. They have proven they are incapable of running an airline, and have proven again, and again that an entity cannot shrink to profitability.
You can compete by putting metal on the jetbridges, our metal, not codeshares, not commuters / regional, not JVBs, and it doesn't work if you treat your employees like crap, and pay them same.
Make a deal with the devil, and...........11,000 warn letter sent out, with an expectation of 4,000 layoffs. All on the TWU side of the house.

See you on Monday,
Steve