I didn’t say they can’t be recorded. I said pilots concerns should be heard and addressed. Your immediate, inaccurate, and adversarial response is exactly the kind of behavior that undermines trust. Blameless culture is critical to aviation safety so undermining trust undermines safety.
> I would venture to say that most workplaces have security cameras, many with sound recording, that can be accessed at any time by management or building security
In the presence of surveillance equipment you should behave as if this is the case but is it? Can management freely access audio and video recordings of employees? I’d be very surprised if that is the case in a corporate setting and I have never seen anything to suggest that it is. I would absolutely like to have a voice in how recordings of me are used by management. Pilots were smart enough to organize and demand that voice.
Every organization I have ever worked for had strict data retention policies to protect the organization in case of a lawsuit. If there were audio or visual recordings of the workplace they were retained only as long as required by law. I have never seen those recordings myself or heard of them being used in any analysis. Already in this comment section the suggestion has been made to mine these recordings with “AI”. This is the kind of ill conceived problem seeking pilots are right to be afraid of.
For the recordings to be useful pilots need to communicate freely. That means they need to feel safe from retaliation. Without these protections pilots will not communicate freely and the situation may actually be less safe.