Originally Posted by
ejpogo
Release #02.75
August 27, 2002
ALPA Pledges $2 Million to Mesa Airlines Pilots to Fund Efforts to Secure a Fair Labor Contract
ALPA Pledges $2 Million to Mesa Airlines Pilots to Fund Efforts to Secure a Fair Labor Contract
Do you remember/know what happened? Instead of going on strike, Mesa signed a concessionary contract in 2003 and got most, or all, of the RJs that Piedmont and Allegheny worked to get scope relief for from USAir. Now you might not call that "stealing" but the Mesa pilot group knew what they would get by approving a concessionary contract when they could have held out for better or gone on strike.
Let's see, in that news release it sure seems like Mesa pilots are concerned about getting rid of the alter ego and dealing with that whole mess. So any "concessions" were taken to achieve that. It seems like a strike would only have served to accelerate the Freedom thing and erode the pilots' leverage.