Originally Posted by
Mudhen200
Good grief...is that all you got? Classic example of what not to do. When you can’t even begin to defend your position when faced with facts and reality, you default to name calling. Although, I gotta admit, you choosing nepotism and management crony as your pet peeves is interesting.
I can assure you, I am neither. I’ve probably got more hours of volunteer time in ALPA than you have flight time.
For the record, I’m not saying all is lost and that there is no hope for a better contract. I am simply saying that there will never be a strike at Alaska Airlines. We will have to use other means to achieve our goals, but a strike is off the table.
So, of course it’s often hard to tell ones pedigree and actual knowledge on here, but.... given that Alaska has a bunch of pilots who have been recently hired and acquired, I think we prob should get this issue ironed out first.
The philosophy... the ACTUAL, LEGAL philosophy of our bargaining position needs to be clearly understoood and privately communicated by our union attorney, or reps, or whatever. We need to know what our ACTUAL weapons are if we have any.
This has been incredibly enlightening. Not encouraging, but enlightening. We all know in any group you’re gonna have some sellouts (not pointing fingers it’s just true), but if half the pilot group thinks we have all the traditional legal tools for negotiation and the other half thinks we are just negotiating for managements charity, we’re screwed before we even start.
Of course, if OZTeagle is correct, it’ll all be a moot point soon, but still...