Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Look who's back! The AirTran troll! Who knows nothing about the Airline Division but what his ALPA handlers told him to say. How'd that work out for ya over there? I hear a bunch of your guys are suing ALPA over DFR when you and the boys screwed them on seniority. What was the deal again? Let SWA screw your guys in hopes that sucking up would get SWAPA to join ALPA?
How's that working out? Lessee...
UAL Senior pilots vs. ALPA - ALPA lost
UAL Junior pilots vs. ALPA- looking pretty bad, same charges as the seniors
TWA vs. ALPA - ALPA lost, looks like that'll be about $1.5 billion plus
AirTran vs. ALPA- ???
Maybe you'd be better off not listening to your handlers. So far their track record is pretty poor.
Seems the IBT Airline Division is run from the bottom up...by pilots who control their own destiny. They get a chance to vote a deal up or down. Unlike ALPA who will refuse to let you vote and then cram a deal down your throat and then have their lawyers and Jalmer Johnson tell you to ratify the deal or they cut off your funding. (Another difference...IBT pilot groups KEEP the bulk of their money, as opposed to ALPA who demands you send it ALL to them).
You know PCL...like you guys did to your pilots. And now you have a DFR!
If the IBT is so good for pilots, why did we boot their ass from Netjets and start an in-house union? Simple. Because there is little return on investment for a pilot from this group. This verbiage you guys are discussing further cements my thoughts on the IBT. What's to stop any company from calling any offer in negotiations their "LBFO" and the union forcing a vote?
Absolutely freakin stupid having this rule apply under the RLA. It's a DFR suit waiting to happen, but not a winnable one. You may have good local negotiators, but their hands were just tied by national. Best of luck....