Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
Either way, your previous comment that forcing mainline carriers to hire ALPA pilots is "closed shop" is incorrect, even under your spurious definition. No one is being forced to join ALPA, they're just being rewarded for it in ALPA contracts.
No, you don't "have' to be a lawyer to read and interpret contracts, but it helps if you want to interpret them correctly.
And thanks for your "help', but I'm quite well versed in the interpretation and use of the RLA and many labor contracts.
That is the very definition of closed shop. You may be "well versed" but you don't know what a closed shop is? Guess my definition of "well versed" is off.
If you have to be a member of ALPA to get hired at an ALPA carrier how are you not being forced to join ALPA? You cannot get the job without joining the union.
Now, I will concede that the original post by Anchor Down said hire from only union
carriers and not hire only union
members which is two different things because you can work for a union carrier without being a union member.