Originally Posted by
Packrat
This makes ZERO sense to me. How would what you make at XJT affect my wages at AS? Both are ALPA carriers.
I guess your insinuation is that low wages at QX prop up AS wages. Except that QX is IBT and AS is ALPA.
Sounds to me like YOUR issue is with your individual NCs and the pilot groups who vote for "ideas" like 20 year contract (Eagle), not ALPA National. National can only advise. Individual NCs accept substandard pay because they KNOW there are a million guys with SJS who would not only fly for free, but pay for the privilege.
I don't work for XJT, Eagle, etc.
ALPA National has done very little to prop up wages at the commuters. It's almost criminal how much the pay difference is.
ALPA National has to "agree" and sign every single contract that is negotiated. And they do.
There are a million guys with SJS. There are
even more who would work at a US major. Yet those wages aren't anything at the level of the commuters - because those pilots have leverage.
The major carriers are smart, most especially after the Comair strike. Too many eggs in one basket makes for a pilot group with too much leverage.
The commuters can't win on their own and need a national union that enforces a bare minimum contract yet ALPA so far has failed to do that. When asked, Lee Moak was speechless to Congress. It was humorous, but sad.