Originally Posted by
sweetholyjesus
Recent gains for regional FOs mostly benefits management.
My bank account and number of pilots below me on the seniority list disagrees.
So you don't think that regionals under-bidding each other by taking concessions was a major problem? What does that do to our leverage?? What is the purpose of associating with ALPA if they wouldn't put a stop to it?
I think that is a symptom of the underlying problem, which is contained in the three questions I asked you earlier.
But as I laid out before, pilot groups aren't going to be subject to a union that imposes the will of the whole on it. If you think otherwise I give you USAPA as exhibit A.
What's stopping anyone from having all those benefits under a different union? Do we need to suckle ALPA's teat so bad that we should sacrifice the ability to jointly negotiate?
But yeah, let's waste all that leverage and money so we can have Pro Stans
You really think that a regional only union, somehow reliant on dues revenue from the pilot group of regional airlines that it imposes its collective will on, is somehow going to generate enough revenue to support the activities that I listed above?