Originally Posted by
Wedge Buster
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.
There will be a merger if you vote in alpa, that is 100% certain. ASA alpa filed a single carrier petition about 2 years ago just for this purpose, but stince we are not alpa it was and still is useless. If we vote in alpa it will not be and a doh merger will happen and will end up being a staple for anyone hired after 2001 at skywest, that is alpa policy on mergers. However if we don't vote in alpa there will be no merger, it will stay status quo as ja and co will see no need to take a non union carrier and make it union carrier with 1 pilot group, when they can maintain a non-union airline. Why would they try and fend off alpa just to merge asa and skywest and turn it into one big alpa airline?
Asa pilots are banking THEIR futures on an alpa skywest, they aren't asking us to go alpa out of the goodness of their hearts because they care about our quality of life, they are pushing it because they know if skywest stays non-union airplanes will be transfered again, due to their stagnent contract negotiations.
That is the reality of the situation.