Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Except all regional airline unions have lowered the bar over the last 5 years, whereas, the non-unionized groups (JetBlue formerly and Skywest) have not taken concessions. Now before people read 3 words of this, misread it, and like Neanderthals get angry, I'm not saying get rid of unions. I'm saying that the unions aren't raising the bar right now and therefore you can't say that "everyone else's contracts" benefits from them.
Just because it hasn't happened in the last few years doesn't mean that it didn't ever happen. I would argue that most of the language in the Skywest handbook was picked out of the ACA contract and CMR contract negotiated before 9/11. Skywest didn't take concessions because the head shed in SGU wanted to keep the masses happy. SGU also knew that if they forced concessions down on Skywest that another union drive would emerge, and may actually pass.