Originally Posted by Nevets
If you want one list, then the ASA/XJT will have to make the legal case to the NMB. Otherwise, the only other way is for Skywest pilots to unionize. Then there might be a possibility. Until then, its moot since JA seems to always use the "my pilots don't want a union" card.
1. You guys had scope language that required a single list with all three groups and you gave it away to get the deal done...Hmmm...What does that tell you?
2. Many ASA pilots are starting to think a single list with the XJT folks isn't such a good idea...That won't help the sale's pitch to the SKYW folks.
Originally Posted by Nevets
By the way, not having fences does NOT mean that you will be displaced. There has to be a vacancy for a pilot to bid into any aircraft, base, and seat. That is your base (and aircraft and seat) protection. You cannot be forced out of your base, aircraft, or seat. People need to educate themselves a little before saying things that are not true.
Yes but you can still get bumped down...The SKYW pilots are smarter than that Nevets...What good is it to want a Western base only to keep getting bumped down...
1. It says that the MEC was chicken$hit!
2. Separate lists is also ok with me. We gain much more than we would've had as an independent that way. If we can't make our contract better through JNC, then it would be stupidity to do other than stay separate until that equation changes, if it ever changes.
And I was only correcting what someone said about having to sell their house and move. That is completely ignorant! Can you be bumped down? Yes and you can also get people below you as well. With the passage of time causing attrition (for different reasons such as retirements, resignations, firings, deaths, promotions, etc), it becomes more likely that you will get bumped down anywhere. That is a fact.