Originally Posted by
Nevets
Again, who said anything about ALPA? Each mec is independent on what they negotiate in their contracts. And each negotiation is dependent on the profitability or lack thereof of each respective company. Why is that hard for you guys to understand? It's not astrophysics! During good times, generally you get improvements. During bad times, generally you get erosion. It's simple economics. That's the constant across all different unions, whether it's ALPA, IBT, Apa, regional, major etc. Both regional and mainline ALPA MECs have gotten gains when their companies have been profitable. Same can be said of all the other pilot unions. THE constant is not the letters in the name of each independent pilot group, it's the economics of the particular airline.
So please stop making these excuses for not voting SAPA as your NMB recognized bargaining agent.
If there is no union between ALPA thru national the what is the point of having a union? ALPA national should have never recommended regionals take concessions for new planes. For you to say that it's each MEC for themselves is completely defeating the purpose of the union.
SAPA negotiates on behalf of the pilots and they aren't doing that bad considering most other regional are lacking in pay and QOL compared to here.
So tell me again why we just make SAPA an official union? You would still complain that the whipsaw is unfair and we want one lis, and that will never happen.