Originally Posted by elmetal

I have no idea why skywest pilots are so anti union.


Unions have done some wonderful thing for many pilot groups.

We're about to have EFBs given to us with mandatory notification and we have ZERO say about it. Is that cool to you guys?

The company has only played nice in the past because it was a significantly smaller company in a very good financial place.

Now it's a giant company that owns other companies and is only worried about the bottom line.

We as pilots need protection from the company, but also more importantly, from other workers within skywest. We need the union so the company can blame the union when we get a new pay package and other workers don't. When we get better insurance than other workers, or better 401k matching, or better FMLA, or better vacation accrual, or better moving expense reimbursement.

You name it, and it could be improved and the company just has to "blame the union" to other workers and that's fine. Right now we can't really get anything much better than other skywest employees.

Not saying we are better than other employees or more important, but giving rampers the same 401k match as pilots is a little crazy. Or in this case, giving us the same as them because our 401k match is nothing great.




Anyway, I am absolutely pro union, as to whether or not it would improve things, y'all can discuss. Until the senior guys start getting more and more screwed a union drive wouldn't work here, but that might be closer than we think