Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
...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!
ALPA isn't in the same league as the UAW, and here's why...
Ford can't just shut down a UAW plant and move the tooling across the street and start a new plant using non-UAW labor. Company-wide, no Ford UAW members would come to work the next day. Sure, there would be grumbling and fighting amongst the membership about how much money Ford could save, profit sharing, competing with Toyota, etc, but Ford production (and profits) would grind to a stop overnight. Of course, the UAW has no RLA.
What happened last year when an ALPA major closed their ALPA subsidiary, and sent all the "tooling" to non-ALPA competitors?
The responses ranged from:
"Gee, that's gotta be rough. I hope someone hires those poor guys" to:
"Serves those guys right. Those dirtbags were always a thorn in my side."