NetJets pilots are upset about an alleged effort by the fractional-ownership giant to use Twitter and other social media to impersonate union members as part of a would-be plot to “weaken and ultimately destroy the union.”
Lawyers are suing NetJets Aviation over the alleged action directed against the 3,000-member NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots. The complaint, filed by the San Francisco law firm Kronenberg Rosenfeld LLP in U.S. District Court in Southern Ohio, claims that the fractional operator set up Twitter accounts that encouraged union members to “violate federal labor laws” and bait them into “supporting unlawful job actions.” The lawsuit also alleges NetJets attempted to interfere with union elections, and in one Twitter message even threatened to blacklist pilots from other flying jobs if they left NetJets.
