Originally Posted by
SkylineAviation
This isn't the first time I've heard about the whole idea of Eagle FO to PSA street captain, but how can that work? Maybe I'm just ignorant but wouldn't the PSA MEC have to agree to that and why would they want to do that, because that would be throwing their current members under the bus potentially. If that were to happen, PSA FOs would not upgrade due to the street captains from Eagle, in essence taking their spots from upgrade, especially if a large number of Eagle FOs did it. I don't think management can just arbitrarily do this without consent from PSA ALPA, but maybe I'm wrong. I don't doubt management may want to do this but I just can't imagine PSA ALPA agreeing to it or its members...talk about shooting yourself in the foot if they did.
Like I said maybe I'm wrong and ignorant to the whole matter.
You don't sound ignorant to me, those are great questions. I'm just passing along what the company told our union members in meetings before we rejected the AIP. Part of the reason we said no was because we question the veracity of their claims.
Among our other reasons: we are already profitable, and already have a provision of our current contract which protects a certain level of profit for them and adjusts our payscales accordingly. We just signed an 8-year bankruptcy concessionary contract a year ago. They are making the most money airlines have ever made before and are handing out record bonuses. They violate our contract on a daily basis. Perhaps most of all, staffing issues everywhere have given us some leverage. Add in our strong desire to not set the bar even lower for our industry, when we already sit at minimum wage starting salary. Most of our pilot group are not hardline types, myself included. But when you add up all of the above for many of us it was an obvious choice despite possible downsides.