Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Cute, but delusional. Yes, every ALPA property has their own negotiating committee...so does every IBT unit. The difference is that when it comes to nut crunching, ALPA national calls the shots and tells the committee and MEC, "this is the best you're gonna get, so take it or we're pulling the funding for your committee and MEC." The last decent department leader they had was Seth Rosen; who understood how to stand up...and he departed the fix years ago. Between Bruce York and John Cohen, they have decimated the place.
You are incorrect again. If a respective MEC doesn't control it's own money, then how is it that DALPA is returning dues $$$ to it's pilot group while other pilot groups aren't receiving dues refunds? How do they fund FPL to reps, or those who attend things such as Pilot 2 Pilot training? And National does not control negotiations. If that were true, then we wouldn't need NCs, would we? And is it National who elects to send a TA to MEMRAT? Nope.
Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
IBT Locals control their own money and the International only comes in IF they are invited. They don't control local negotiations, the local NC does. That's why RAH has the contract they have and why they are still a mess...because the Local Pres and the outside law firm he retained to negotiate have buggered it. When Local 747 was shut down...and part of the problem was the RAH officials and what they were doing...RAH was offered IBT 's help to get a contract done. They refused and demanded their own local to do thier own thing. They got what they wanted. The International has offered to help more than once and been told "no thanks, we got it."
Wow. So International CAN'T intervene, & as a result the profession suffers. Well that's fantastic representation. And a heck of a way to improve the profession. Seven PLUS years past the amendable date for RAH!!!
Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Kalitta is in Section 6. GoJets the same. Go ask your ALPA heroes who ever had a kick butt first CBA. Go look at first contracts they negotiated. Either $$ or work rules, one or the other and pretty weak. Second and sucessive contracts are where you close the loopholes and make progress. Unless you have someone like ALPA who has a president that goes to a company and says, "shut down your other carrier and we'll cut you a deal on the new CBA for your ALPA property..." like they did with the CEO of TranStates and GoJet. Nice...you have furloughed ALPA guys who can't find jobs with ALPA carriers flying for GoJets (so much for solidarity), and you're going to gut them again. And when the CEO says "no" you start calling the GoJet guys scabs. A scab crosses a picket line.
Kalitta has been in Sec 6 for over 3 years. Their pay is abysmal. 19 years to get to $173 as a 747 CA! And GoJet. Their pay AND work rules are terrible. Not one, but both. 50% DH pay. No trip rigs. No duty rigs. No cancellation pay. No min day guarantee. Along with some of the lowest CRJ700 pay in the industry. So I guess that still makes my "ALPA heroes" better then IBT.
And I'm well aware of the definition of scab. Although you're painting with a very broad brush when it comes to your accusations that all ALPA members are calling GoJet pilots scabs. To be true, you'd need to have proof. Which you certainly don't. You might want to retract that statement, because it's making you look very bad.
Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Have you ever walked a picket line at your airline?
For the duration that I've been employed the opportunity has never come about at my airline. But to display the UNITY of ALPA, I did walk the picket line to show my support for Spirit pilots.