Originally Posted by
CBreezy
ALPA isn't saying it. The NLRB and the NMB are saying it. That "fly now, grieve later" exists in many forms like "obey now, grieve later" and "work now, grieve later." You're organized labor and in the 21st century, just be happy unions have been banned entirely as the Right would like. The protection that you have with the RLA prevents the company from imposing contract terms and sets up an organized way to resolving disputes instead of striking every time someone is improperly junior manned.
Good points, but they have more tools than we do in the legal system. Our ONLY leverage is labor. And the law says we can't take that away until all the red tape has been cut. Meanwhile they can make cheap labor (by themselves, for themselves, and outside of negotiation!!) by OWNING and MANAGING "separate" companies in order to cut labor costs, harming pilots everywhere!
The only solution to this I see is a larger unified union (like ALPA) accepting only one contract for its pilots (yea right). Then we would have legal protection. Yes I know this is a stretch from our current reality. But so many of us are "ALPA" pilots yet there are so many different payscales. What's the point of unionizing, especially with these large national unions, if we are all on our own anyway???
Somewhere along the lines of this industry being formed into what it currently is, the scales of legal protection (and flexibility) were left unbalanced. IMHO