Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Mainline unions BENEFIT from low labor costs at the regionals, they are not going to expend negotiating capital to reduce their own slice of the pie
ALPA National knows which side of it's bread is buttered too.
How does cheap labor benefit the union? It benefits the company by a margin. It benefits the senior main line captains who sold scope for pay. That is all. Junior main line pilots are often beginning over again at seniority year zero. And they have reduced opportunities for upgrade due to the smaller fleet. One would even argue the reduced pay and therefore reduced dues hurts the for profit union.