Originally Posted by
jethikoki
If this is how things are then why should regionals be part of ALPA since we do not have "real airline jobs" that need to be protected? (No sarcasm intended)
Poor choice of words on my part. There are a few perspectives at play here, what I perceive to be my MEC's view, your MEC's view, National's view, my opinion ... I wasn't very clear.
Ideally, your airline is in ALPA because you use each other to coordinate your bargaining and bargain up, improving contracts with each successive round.
That process has failed with Pinnacle's bargaining to score flying with concessions.
I have pointed you to the resources descriptive of how to manage your union.
This will not be pretty for the non ALPA players either. Unity is only as strong as the weakest link.c