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Old 04-03-2007, 12:38 PM
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ghilis101
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a union may not do a whole lot at the regional level (ideally youre only supposed to be there under 5 years anyway if you want to go to a major). but think about it, if youre at a place for your ENTIRE career, you want something in your back pocket. some kind of job, legal, etc protection, someone that will protect you when nobody else will. A union is not going to magically make your job better, but youll be better off for having one in the long run. how would you like to be a 15 year captain fired on the spot with no real appeals process? How would you like to be at an airline with a fake grievance process? if you want to use skywest at a stepping stone, then the union vote doesnt matter, but if youre a lifer there, time to start thinkin about some insurace. send your card in and at least see how the vote turns out. alpa at skywest is not going to wreck the place, its very possible to still maintain that healthy relationship with management. if you talk to the alpa organizing committee there, you will see theyre all level-headed guys, theyre not MILITANT like some other places and they dont want to constantly threaten management with a strike vote etc. The simply want to take the status quo and turn it into a CONTRACT. they want reps, they want legal representation, some minor work rule changes, and thats it. Management is scared sure because they think the pilots will get to greedy with it, but I dont see that happening at SKW. A good model to follow in this case would be ExpressJet.
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