Originally Posted by
CBreezy
The railway labor act requires you to use a collective unit to resolve labor disputes. The system you operate under favors a union. It is in the best interest of all pilots to remain unionized.
In order to resolve any issues, you need to pay people to not fly. That's flight pay loss. A regional airline is unable to support its own union because dues are so low.
It may favor a union but that doesn't mean you should have one or its the best idea.
I'm advocating doing away with the union at the regionals, not replacing it or fixing it. Not even a pilot driven association such as skywest.
Let the company worry about organizing the pilots. That way when pilots go rogue and decide not to work or show up or show up late, there is nobody to sue. There is no work action. There is nobody to complain to. Let the company organize the pilots no different than any other corporation. Think about the simplicity. Someone else on this forum has hit the nail on the head with this thinking, can't remember who.
But its now clear to me that the company needs the union more than the pilots do. Think about it.