Originally Posted by
Crazy Canuck
I completely agree with this! And I don't really blame SAPA itself for this issue, especially since they were created by SkyWest.
Now, while I don't mind eating a bit of Crow I ask this Nevets: What can a union offer that SAPA can't? Other than "enforceable" contract language? How is that working out for other regionals? I feel ALPA et al have proved that they cannot do a good job with any of the leverage they had with other airlines. Not to mention voting in a union will not go over well with management (not that our job is to please them per se, but all of a sudden what reservedness they have and treat us with will be gone). Hence why I do not support an official union any more than SAPA.
You show your newness, new guy. The sum of the stuff SKYW has taken by fiat is, astonishing, staggering really. Now take a snapshot of your work life, today. When the EFB arrives and you have solved your first "blue screen of death" situation, wait till the first irregular ops day and the 19 year old Dixie college dropout decides that your esteemed services are needed on the other side of the country, due to her using all the reserves to sit at airport Ready Reserve, and you had plans to sleep in your bid hotel. To no avail, Reflow via EFB means you can't even ask for/suggest a different solution via the phone. This will be your introduction to the SKYW way of yanking bits of your life out of your hands. This has been going on since the last Union drive failed, because large amounts of new/newer guys didn't want to rock the boat and affect their upgrades. This sad sad record plays over and over and without a majority intervention, it keeps playing. The irony is SKYW has become the place to avoid, fast cash and upgrades elsewhere are ne new currency to attract new suckers. Remember so you too can lament the "good old days at SKYW, when_______wasnt in effect"