Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
The biggest complaint you'll get from people at SkyWest for more than say 5 years or so is I don't want a percent of my pay going to a union to waste on nothing. Usually these guys I hear that from are senior and have never had to deal with issues where a union could help them. We can debate unions all day for their positive and negatives cause both sides aren't necessarily wrong, but I'd prefer one for the just in case moment I need it. YMMV
That's what I find so funny/frustrating. If any SW pilot would take a look at what has been taken away from us by SGU with a simple pen stroke, they would realize how much they were getting for that small percentage. Block vs credit, relocation incentives, pay rates for new planes, ect... As it stands now, SGU can just do whatever they want and change our QOL overnight. Servers getting bogged down with everyone trying to improve their schedule the night of the 24th? Just write a script that denies any requests due to lack of reserves. Agree to reserve improvements in a pay package that may cost some money to implement? Just change management and say that it was the old guy that agreed to that and you are not going to do it anymore. Get on the wrong side of your CP and he spends tons of money and resources to get you fired? It's okay as long as you have the money to take the company to court, you will get your job back plus back pay/lawyers fees. If you were part of a union, you wouldn't be paying the lawyers out of pocket. By trying to save 1.5-2%, SW pilots are losing way more than that each year. I bet you could pay your union fees for the year with one fatigue call that is denied.
Originally Posted by
daOldMan
There has been a push in the past for unionized majors to only hire regional pilots that came from unionized shops. Personally, I would support this. If you want to work for a major that is part of a union, you should work for a regional that supports a union.
The greatest threat to unionized pilots in non-unionized pilots.
I wonder how much something like this would hurt SW recruiting efforts? I think you would have to have some type of grandfather policy to those that are currently at a regional without a union. I know it would have made a difference for me in which place I went to work for if that was the case. Didn't United do something like this with the ALPA seminars not to long ago? Something like this would be way more beneficial than a flow IMO. That and ALL regionals agreeing to not undercut each other.