Originally Posted by
Chupacabras
After this week's settlement between TWA pilots and ALPA, I have to throw this out there........Should regional pilots bring legal action against ALPA for the misrepresentation all these years?
Im sure Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLC, one of the firms that represented the TWA pilots would love the challenge of discovering evidence that proves ALPA's "breach of duty" toward the regional pilots all these years. Im sure someone out there has proof, beyond hearsay, of our union's misrepresentation.
Just a thought...... I bet that size a class action would make for a pretty coin ten or so years down the line.
Let's put some logic to this settlement: It took the TWA pilots over a decade to get this payout. A good chunk of it will go to taxes, and an even bigger chunk of it will go to the lawyers.
That will leave the individual pilots with only a few thousand dollars each after more than a decade of legal battling. And these were MAINLINE pilots that their union abandoned. Not regional pilots who have shown to vote overwhelmingly yes for wages much lower than said TWA pilots. On top of that, there are many more times the amount of regional pilots than there were TWA pilots. You're talking maybe a few hundred per pilot, if it is even successful.
If you want to make money off of a lawsuit like this, become a lawyer.