Originally Posted by
Elevation
Swapping unions would be a really bad idea right now.
Yes it would be. While most of our problems lie with our current leadership and their failed tactics that are similar repeats of the past merger. I do have some miss givings of the Teamsters, going back to ALPA would be way worse. As a matter of fact, our current EXCO Chair was pro ALPA and pro non-merger back in the day on the first one. Spent most of his time giving lobbying parties to ALPA leadership while his nose was parking neatly in their posteriors to keep the merger from happening despite what he says today. If he had a choice, we would still be battling it out but the desertification of ALPA and the single carrier NMB determination fixed that.
Here is what ALPA said about us ACMI carriers as they did everything to burn us at Atlas while taking our dues money.
I've also noted an uptick by the new hires that they are tired of being blamed as the crux of the problem by our leadership. Tired of being asked when they are going to leave etc and they feel are blamed somehow to the ongoing problems the current campaign the EXCO is running of dissuading new hires to come here to gain leverage at the table. A spin off of the "complete operational merger" preached to the Polar guys back in those days they stood on to log jamb everything. With our turn over and the leaderships current tactics, they may only be in office for so long. Much how they got in under the last wave of new hires making promises they couldn't keep.