Originally Posted by
FirstClass
Someone on this forum proposed doing just that a while back, don't remember who. Back a while ago there was a bunch of polls. Something along the lines of 'let anarchy reign' without the union.
Why does a sickout even need to be organized without a union, pilots would be free to just do their own thing, they either show up for work or they don't. Many airlines have raw PTO, no need to even refer to it as "sick".
That was me. I've been off for a while but I was putting something together the last few weeks I was going to post but haven't really finished it up. If anyone is interested in it maybe I'll finish it and post it.
I'm basically proposing, at the regional level, that unions are of no value. I propose basically that unions do the opposite at the regionals, they give the company the needed infrastructure to keep pilots inline. Imagine if there was no union or central pilot group authority, how could the company possibly cope with all the anarchy? The company needs the union desperately, but they need to control the union under the covers.
In order to reign the group in and function, they would have to basically work harder to keep pilots on the property and happier, especially in times like this where it is clearly a pilots market.
For the sake of argument, what would happen if at your company (any regional) the pilots just decided to vote out the union altogether and not replace it with anything at all, not even an in house governing body. What would happen?