Originally Posted by
baseball
My biggest beef isn't the scabs who crossed an ALPA picket line it is with ALPA for allowing it to happen, not once, but twice (CAL and UAL).
What was ALPA supposed to do?
Further, I am disappointed with how ALPA has molly-coddled the regional industry, acting as a catalyst to the erosion of mainline flying, mainline growth, and mainline revenue which in turn lowers pilots career expectations and their earning potential.
While there's a valid case for ALPA being "majors only," let's not forget we were the ones who voted away our scope.
Now, ALPA wants to fight Norweign Air and prevent them from taking our routes.
And so far we've successfully fended off the first attack.
Where was all their p$$$ and vinegar when regionals were stealing our flying?
Again... each pilot group voted to give away that flying, it wasn't stolen.
The reason my biggest beef isn't with the scabs is because you can't prevent or legislate stupidity or greed. But, our union should be strong enough to prevent strike breakers from doing their dirty deeds. I am paying the union dues money for this, so I sort of expect ALPA to be policing this garbage and preventing it from happening in the first place. I don't like scabs at all, but I really don't like weakness because it invites attacks both internally and externally.
What, specifically, do you propose?