Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
If ALPA *ever* deserved legitimate blame for something, its not educating its younger/newer members what pattern bargaining is...
...and how you can pattern bargain up, or pattern bargain down.
Because the current state of affairs is most definitely the latter.
national was in favor of this, there were vp's going around saying that this was the way of things with the regionals now, to just buckle down and give in to mainlines, even if they want concessions when they're profitable...
we've been sold down the river