Originally Posted by
Boomer
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."
... and what is happening now in Detroit? Or how about Boeing moving an assembly plant to South Carolina? Naaaah, those unions are unbeatable. With an unemployment rate in the USA of 7+%, if any big corporation offers jobs to non-union workers in a depressed part of the country at a fraction of what they were making in... say Detroit... people will line up for miles to get a piece of it. I am guessing that you yourself will be one of thousands of applications at Delta Air Lines, even if we have the weakest stupidest union in the history of mankind. Why is that?