Originally Posted by
johnso29
Perhaps you'd be happier at a non ALPA Cargo carrier? Such as Centurion, Kalitta, National, or Southern to name a few. They seem to have superior pay, benefits, and work rules.
Or maybe Atlas? Who in their merged CBA saw a 34% increase for Polar crews and 27% for Atlas to come to parity. Who have a growing carrier and in 2011 handed out profit sharing checks based on 18.5% of W-2. The fact is each of them is under Section 6 and will do exponentially better percentage and work rules wise than any contract negotiated by ALPA for a few years now.
Odd thing. It also seems all these ALPA carriers are talking decert. How's organizing been working for ALPA lately? JetBlue? American? USAirways? Sky West? Multiple failures and millions lost on organizing drives. Wonder what the common thread was?
And then Prater "poached" North American. His own people said it would cost over $18,000 a month to represent them with ZERO financial gain. Wonder how much support they'll get in bankruptcy.
Why would FedEx leave? Could it be over the fact that ALPA dismissed their concerns over Age 65? Maybe that when ALPA needed to replace the VP-Finance because they had lost to USAPA and Chris had to step down, instead of electing an emminently qualified financial guy from FedEx, Prater pushed Randy Helling...who had zero financial experience, save picking up the bar tab.
Or could it be both of those things and the realization that no matter WHAT FedEx does, they will always be looked down upon as a non legacy and because cargo pilots aren't "real pilots" because "real pilots" fly people?