Originally Posted by
TonyC
You have made it abundantly obvious from this post and the two prior that:
1) You believe your current contract is onerous, and you voted against it.
2) You don't understand the original poster's question, or you are unable or unwilling to answer it.
3) You have no clue what Block Representation is.
4) You didn't read my questions, or you chose to ignore them.
4) You are off by a country mile about my seniority, seat, or even airline.
R57 relay asked about the pros and cons of Block Representation, and specifically asked if anyone has worked under Block Representation.
He didn't ask about the history of CBAs at the airlines which were later merged to form today's AA. He didn't ask about the current contract. He didn't even ask about a comparison between APA and ALPA.
He asked about Block Representation.
I'm interested to hear more about your concept of Block Representation that would allow the election of 22 FOs as BOD Members.
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TonyC,
It appears our posts fly past each other.
Block representation in my view will not solve the dysfunctionality at APA. The very problem we now have is a due to the self-serving parochial interests created by each block (seniority range).
Senior CA's care about making as much as they can before they have to leave and retirement issues.
Middle range pilots care "mainly" (not only) about quality of life issues.
Junior (particularly previously furloughed) pilots care about movement, upgrades, LOS and reserve issues.
Each group transcends into each other's interests but we fail because most care largely about their block issues and not the overall issues.
Put that into a BOD room and how does it make the unity any better at coming to a decision and coming out unified? Many of you are inaccurately stating the APA leadership is made up of only senior pilots. If that's true look how dysfunctional it is with a similar group with what should be common interests. Block representation is going to make that process better?
Reread my posts. Where did I ever write block representation will allow 22 FO's? It theoretically could (sub 1000 FO's) but that is not what I wrote.
What I wrote is that under our current structure, especially where barely 50% of pilots even vote for elected leaders, a unified junior group that was well organized could sweep the elections of APA leadership positions. You can't do that under a block representation structure.
Problem is, once again, unity. It falls apart throughout our ranks, even the junior ranks.