Originally Posted by
TonyWilliams
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It's no surprise that SkyWest management is opposed to ALPA. They've very publically stated that.
Jerry told our new hire class that while other parts of ASA would be combined with SKW (like maintenance), the pilots wouldn't be combined primarily because ASA was ALPA, and SKW is not.
What if the final ASA contract is nothing better than what SKW has? Sounds like they'd love to have that made public.
Tony, is your primary concern with ALPA that you are afraid of a Skywest/ASA merger? And what will happen with the seniority list?
First of all I highly doubt a merger will happen whether or not Skywest votes ALPA, but
if I does happen and Skywest pilots don’t have a union to represent them. They will have a hard time getting favorable terms when seniority lists are merged. You can bet that ASA-ALPA would have a lot more re$ource$ to throw around.
Just some food for thought.