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.
Worked to get scope relief from USAir? YHGTBSM! So you're railing on MAG for their supposed "concessionary contract", but it's cool that, while USAir was furloughing, Piedmont and Allegheny was working hard to grow at the furloughed pilots' expense.
