Originally Posted by
Dirty Rat
To all outsiders reading this: Republic Airlines is directly responsible for the overthrow and termination of Midwest and Skyway employees. All were REPLACED by lower paid individuals who gladly took our jobs.
As union members, we should remember that we do not control management, but we are responsible for our own actions. As much as I sympathize for the Frontier pilots, strategically, they sure appear to be going down the wrong road.
Skyway pilots were treated as separate and not protected by MidWest pilots. Midwest pilots were treated as separate and not protected by Northwest (Delta) pilots. Now Frontier's pilots has maneuvered to keep themselves separate from Republic's pilots. Delta found reasons to separate Compass and watched 500 members of their MEC vanish. US Air has continued a labor battle that prevents it from moving forward. The end result of disunity is nearly always the same.
In contrast the Delta & Northwest pilots found unity and have benefited (on the whole). Republic pilots fought for unity (scope) and they too have benefited from unity.
FWIW, take a lesson from history. What has worked elsewhere and what hasn't?