Originally Posted by fastback

Quote:





Originally Posted by Nevets


You are not exerting your right to bargain collectively and thus, with real leverage. As little as it is in the regional industry. Let me give you one example. Let's look at the last compass contract. They had the leverage to bargain for their contract with the credible threat that whatever they can't come to an agreement to, a neutral third party makes the final binding decision for the two parties, regardless of financial windfalls to one side or the other. Does your pilot leaders have the power/right to send whatever the company doesn't agree to to binding arbitration? If no, then they really are just spectators and management has just made it seem like you have some control over the interpretation of language in your work rules. You get what management decides to give you. Otherwise you would be self funded organization with no conflict of interest between the employer and the employees being funded by the employer to supposedly bargain against their financial interest when it's the employers FIDUCIARY responsibility to extract as much cost savings from the employee. Does your organization have a legal fiduciary to the pilots? No they don't. Their only responsibility is to follow the rules of the employer. They get no protections afforded federally recognized bargaining agents in executing their fiduciary responsibility to the employee because you are only at-will employees.

Without that leverage, you are just spectating whether you want to admit it or not. And I say that the fact that you deny to see it, is the reason why we are being whipsawed. You guys can help end this now.




You didn't answer my question, which was "Exactly in what is a Skywest pilot not a participant?"

Every Skywest pilot is a participant in the regional airline labor market, just not in a manner approved by you. Granted, we do operate without a NMB observed contract, which some may argue is for better or for worse. Personally, I'd rather operate with a contract and with some of the professional services that a union offers, but for you to imply that we are just spectators to our own careers is just bunk.

Oh, and saying that by going ALPA we will help end Inc's efforts to lower pilot labor cost is shortsighted and oblivious to history.