Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Apparently you have forgotten:
- Since we outsourced half our flying, there are not as many "major" jobs
Um no. I'm the one that wants to dump ALPA over this because ALPA wants to do nothing about outsourcing except continue it. You're the one who wants to fix ALPA from within. Who has forgotten what...
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
- The "majors" have shrunk to the point what we used to call regionals are now majors. We are considered a "Legacy" carrier
Um no. "Legacy Carrier" is a media term. We are a major carrier, and major carriers still do most of the flying. So far.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
- As the regionals became majors (including Southwest and Republic) their pay and working conditions have improved to the point for many people there is no financial pay back for having to start over ... (for instance, as your contract and equipment stood in 2007, the numbers said there was scant difference between NWA and staying put at my regional)
But still you came to the majors.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The result of bigotry is clear. Delta pilots get furloughed while replacement pilots get hired.
Um no. Bigotry didn't get Delta pilots furloughed. Giving in to the Scope fear propagated by management and ALPA did that.
Carl