Originally Posted by
Hillbilly
I believe it is logical that management would have driven the move to outsource as a way to save money, but I would like to see your evidence showing that outsourcing was subsequently being driven by ALPA national. Cabotage and foreign ownership are primarily issues fought on capital hill with legislative efforts more so than at the bargaining table at the local level, hence the appropriate focus and communication at the national level. Scope is local in nature to the individual property, hence the appropriate focus and communication at the local level.
It doesn't matter that scope is a local issue. It is AN issue...and an extremely important one. As such it is up to our national union to educate and warn its members against such threats. ALPA national would not sit silently if a local MEC agreed with their management to give pay raises based on pilots lobbying for cabotage and for foreign ownership rule changes. ALPA would rightly strongly warn against that, and maybe even refuse to sign the document.
ALPA national can't warn us against outsourcing threats anymore because of ALPA's structural conflict of interest.
Carl