Originally Posted by
DALFA
I agree. I don't understand why some don't believe this is a real threat.
Also, regarding NAI...
Their US Based flight attendants just voted to form their own independent union. From the time they filed a petition with the NMB to the time they actually got to vote was about 1 year because NAI fought them every step of the way and argued that because they're not actual NAI employees (they're hired by a 3rd party company) that they don't fall under the RLA. It was only because the Association of Flight Attendants and the AFL-CIO stepped in and provided free legal counsel to the US based NAI flight attendants that they were able to fight this off and thankfully the NMB ruled that they were covered by the RLA...but it wasn't an easy fight.
So not only does NAI want to use cheap foreign labor, but they tried to deny their US based crews the right to form a union.
NAI needs to be stopped right in it's steps and CRUSHED so that no other entity will ever try this again. Unfortunately, the DOT approved their application. Will Trump reverse course? I doubt it, but I hope i'm wrong. If NAI starts flooding the TATL market with brand new 787s and cheap labor it will be an endless downward spiral from there.
This is the true issue. NAI's plan is to deprive crews of labor rights enjoyed in EU and US. US/EU Open Skies isn't a free for all: there are rules and they propose to violate them. If they were truly competitive with "real" US/EU carriers they wouldn't go thru all these gyrations just to screw labor. Growing up I can't recall how many times I heard a Liberian/Panamanian/whatever ship or tanker had run aground or was leaking. Later in life I learned what a Flag of Convenience was: an attempt to circumvent taxes, oversight, labor laws, environmental laws, etc. The customer pays one way or the other: either thru the ticket up front or cleaning by up the mess later. In any complicated venture this is the history. This isn't JMO, I'm right about this. OFG