Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
While I do think it is politically possible to put a very large raise in front of the pilots for selling the bottom 1/5th of the list and stagnating the bottom 1/3, very few would break unity for 3%. Further, folks who are willing to call this what it is makes the politics uglier today than it has been in the past when junior pilots believed Comair pilots & 9/11 were responsible for their problems.
ALPA needs to come out and state "no one gets sold." Every member should be able to go to sleep at night expecting the same level of representation.
POS 96 was sold to the pilots with the promise of "unprecedented growth".
Nothing in writing. Just a promise.
ALPA and management pushed hard to get it ratified and it sailed through.
Don't underestimate the persuasive power of the company combined with the ALPA insiders if they decide to work together. They can get damn near anything passed via memrat.
Hopefully enough union guys have realized the truth about outsourcing and their views have "evolved", but --
If the union operatives and mgmt decide they want a scope sale, we're gonna get a scope sale.
And the membership will ratify it.