Originally Posted by
Wynncore
For somebody who has moved on from AS it is pretty classless of you to return to an Alaska forum to lecture, berate, chastise and humiliate the Alaska pilot group over perceived negotiating weaknesses that existed while you were here. While some of your points are valid, now is not the time to spew your venom at a pilot group that A: You were once apart of and B: Put a very solid foot forward in the current negotiating cycle who's outcome is to be decided by a third party. You've moved on, this is no longer your fight.
GearBoy is free & welcome to say whatever he wants. You don't have to be a part of a particular pilot group in order to have an opinion.
GearBoy was smart and got out when he could. He still speaks the truth.
This pilot group is weak. We always vote for the first TA & give up a bunch of stuff to management for a few extra pennies, which they fight us tooth & nail for every single time.
I hold out hope that the demographic of this pilot group is changing and that we'll vote no on crappy TAs in the future. Better yet, I'm hoping that we'll have an MEC that won't even recommend a sub-par TA.
With as many years as I personally have invested here, I'm not going anywhere. This pilot group needs to wake up & fight for a good contract.
Don't believe everything the company tries to sell you... and Brad is not your buddy. Who do you think gives Ben his marching orders?
Just go back and watch those two videos again.