Originally Posted by
Hercbubba
I highly recommend not taking any RSA trips. Fact of the matter is most pilots are greedy and they will take them. I will bet my first year paycheck, we won't have a contract for another 18-20 months. The company saves about 400MM every year they don't have one. We can sit here and ***** about whatever we think, but nothing is going to happen anytime soon. The Railroad labor act from 1926, and it's amendment for the airline industry in 1934ish, only benefit the company, not the poor little union folks. Look at Hawaiian, and get ready for the sam type of outcome. JB is up for it's first contract, so expect the company to draw out as much time as it can. Until then, 100-150 pilots will continue to leave and go to a major airline. Face it...if we want major airline pay, then we are going to have to get on with a major airline. ALPA will never get a good contract for Frontier, JB, Hawaiian or any commuter it represents, because they make all their money off the Big 3 (UAL, Delta, and Fedex).
Doom and gloom. ALPA is our local MEC and 300+ volunteers. And ALPA national has an incentive to lend their resources to JBALPA to bring us up to our peers in compensation, because that will lead to a 30-40% increase in dues revenues from 3500 pilots.
Even if you're planning to leave or thinking of leaving to go join a properly-compensated pilot group (count me in that group), please devote a little time and effort here at BlewJet to attend LEC meetings, wear your lanyard, educate juicers and lanyard-wearers alike about the ramifications of RSA pickup, and spend a couple of your off days holding a picket sign when the time comes. Otherwise, there's a saying... "This is why we can't have nice things."