Originally Posted by
sweetholyjesus
Not once did I say combining regional labor should be excluded. If you'd like to share where I said that, please do.
Your original quote was:
Originally Posted by
sweetholyjesus
Combine more labor and you will have greater leverage to bargain with. ALPA is the exact opposite of that. They promote separate pay scales to prop up mainline wages and mainline profits. Regional pilots should want no part in that.
Which really makes no sense. If ALPA is supported by dues revenue, why does having a lot of underpaid labor on their roles (who's representation they're subsidizing) make any sense?
Why else would mainline pay be so high, and regional pay so low?
If you really want to understand that, you need to correctly answer three questions:
1. Under the RLA, who actually owns a given company's flying?
2. How many customers does a mainline carrier have?
3. How many customers does a regional carrier have?
Yes I piggy-backed off the idea. Consider that after the scope was signed away, any following generation of airline pilots will have to start at the regional pay scale. That is a lower scale than mainline, all-the-while flying the same passengers and same equipment (see mainline CRJ rates versus regional CRJ rates). It is even less than the ULCCs.
It's a glorified C scale. Especially when considering the wholly-owned regional carriers. What a joke that is, the mainline carrier owning a "separate" company flying the same passengers while paying less money for the same work. AND keeping all the profits from the cheaper labor. That is the biggest insult and is certainly a C scale.
Um,
Not same equipment.
(like it or not) not same seniority list.
We probably agree about the "joke" part, but supporting one's position with emotion, mixing metaphors, a lack of knowledge as to why we are where we are, and your dope internet keyboard warrior skillz doesn't actually solve anything.