Originally Posted by
AllenAllert
Simple answer - basically, the union in place was controlled by management and scabs. The CAL guys were afraid of getting screwed if they merged with an ALPA carrier and sought to get ALPA back on property.
The CAL guys had a choice of being a scab airline fighting an ALPA carrier in case of merger or allowing the scabs into CAL ALPA. They chose the SCABS. The scabs voted for ALPA and I would assume they were allowed into whatever union CAL had before (their new)ALPA.
Originally Posted by
ReadyRsv
All of this is wrong. It's illegal to certify a union and not let everyone on property into said union. Scabs aren't a legal entity and there is no clause is US labor law defining them (of course, we can;t hurt their feelings at work :/ )
If the scabs were on property at the time of the election then they get to be members. Shocking that people don't understand this.
None of it is wrong. You want to quote law when you don’t care to look at motive. It was both the non-scabs and scabs that requested a certification vote to protect what was stolen. Thus, the non-scabs voted to allow the SCABS into ALPA on their shirttails.
The merger is not that old, have you forgotten the JS and JP deals that delayed integration, contract and weakened ALPA on the property. I’m proud to say that post all that, good people took hold of the combined ALPA gaining us a good contract and an organization that will enforce it much as it existed at pre-merger UAL
I’m kinda curious, why do many CAL types need to defend the action of their SCABS?