[QUOTE=Dave Fitzgerald;2507229][QUOTE=baseball;2507080]
Originally Posted by
Airway
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. I absolutely agree with your first statement. But, how is the union responsible for PBS?
ALPA did not choose the system, the company did..
That is backward, at least as far as LCAL is concerned. We had no PBS prior to ALPA. In fact we fought it for years. The company, along with a few pbs diehards from EWR, pushed it every couple years since around '89.
It was not until the first ALPA contract that we got PBS (and lost funding of our "A" plan). During the road shows and various communications from the MEC, LEC and negotiating committee reps, they were all gushing about how great PBS would be.
The company offered it, and our MEC swallowed it like hungry bass swallows a minnow. There were alternatives, including staying with pre-built lines, but the prevailing mantra was, the other ALPA carriers are going with a preferential system (and dumping their DB plans), so we should too.