Originally Posted by
MartinBishop
Why do the unions let them get away with paying so little? Isn't that what they are there to prevent?
ALPA is very well aware of the scam of having regional pilots subsidize wages & benefits at the legacies.
Do you think it's a coincidence ALPA signed off on all these concessionary contracts while simultaneously seeing huge gains in legacy compensation during the same timeframe.
Its the tacit, unspoken thing everyone "knows" but never talks about
: the overall negotiating strategy at National is:
1) Lock in cheap wages at regionals to save money on feed
2) Go get the money they just saved mgmt by signing off on all the crappy TAs at their regional sweatshops
3) Mainline gets more, we get less
It's a perverse Dickensian cycle that ALPA National has coordinated over the last decade or two