Originally Posted by
Mesabah
Not quite sure what this will do for the independent regionals. There is nothing to compel the mainlines to give more money, in fact it allows them to modify the ASA's to the negative. Regional pilots need to stop all payment of union dues, not engage in illegal work action.
You are right that the express level corporate entities are literally in the same boat as their employees. The only way change happens is if there were a significant enough disruption to ripple through the network.
Delta pilots are in the same boat to some degree, but most do not realize it yet. Delta's JV's and codeshares do a much larger percentage of Delta's flying than Continental ever did of Eastern's.
Unionism is the only way this gets fixed.
It is
management's decision to outsource work and management's decisions to set up structures designed to reset employees longevity.
ALPA answers to us, but those who directed them to make this fight are no longer with us. The more pragmatic have survived.
As fun as it is to discuss this theoretical (and I think nothing comes from their effort) plan, clearly the best choice of action is to leverage what we can, when we can, working with management when we can find common ground. If this flying is to be recovered without disruption, it will be incremental. That sort of work requires a highly functional union.