Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to think strategically and get folks to contemplate how we can best neutralize the threats we face, in an attempt to keep major US airline jobs a viable career over the next 10-20 years.
The question was, would the UAW accept this situation.
Hell, no.
You want to neutralize the threat? Start right here...
Airline Pilot Central - Regional
You should be so lucky to have EK or EY package in the US. But US airline pilots are no longer the proud professional group they once were. Instead, they are a bunch of Stockholm-syndrome-no-balls-blame-everyone-but-themselves bunch who don't give a flying f#%k about their legacy or what they leave behind. It's no wonder executive level compensation shot through the roof over the past decade... the management clearly has their act together. None of you chest-thumpers on here were willing to shut it all down when the pensions and scope were under attack. Quite the opposite, you folded like a house of cards, so it became totally obvious that NOTHING is sacred anymore, and everything was ripe for the taking...
To answer your question, UAW wouldn't accept ALPA's idiotic end-all-be-all seniority system tying you or your compensation or your experience to one airline. Would UAW be OK with an autoworker making $95/hour and once that plant shuts down move to another making $20/hour because all of a sudden, you're an apprentice again just because you change plants?! Bullsh*t! NO OTHER UNION TREATS THEIR MEMBERS LIKE THIS! NOT ONE!
Instead of worrying about overseas airlines, better pay attention to what's going on at home. Your enemy is right here at home...