Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
My question to you is, why are smart politicians defending bad policy which forced half of our profession into concessionary bargaining wile our employers make billions?
I don't think anyone is defending outsourcing. At least I know I'm not.
WRT the Pinnacle contract, that is a contract for the Pinnacle pilots to negotiate. ALPA's structure gives individual MEC's a great deal of autonomy to determine their own negotiating goals and strategies. They were in bankruptcy; not making billions and they were facing significant downsizing and possibly a CMR scenario. They did what they had to to keep their jobs as best they could. Some might have wanted them to "take one for the team," they concluded that they wouldn't.