Originally Posted by
76drvr
Good point. I've never bought into the conflict of interest argument. It's wrong to scapegoat the RJ guys, they didn't vote on our contract. We need man-up and look in the mirror on this issue. Where have we set our priorities in the past and how that might have failed us.
Nobody is scapegoating the RJ guys. ALPA's structure is the very definition of conflict of interest. Our bargaining agent is the exact same bargaining agent of our direct competitors who want to grow their operations, just like we want to grow ours. The court mandated process to manage that conflict of interest (meet and confer) is about to be tested in our upcoming Section 6. It looks as though the process will be completely opaque to us members. None of this would be mandated for the pilots of Delta if we were an in-house union.
Carl