Originally Posted by
Nevjets
The problem with many of these programs without a union is that there is a conflict of interest. When you have one entity financially supporting another entity which has different constituents and therefore sometimes divergent concerns, the one side supporting the other has all the leverage.
If you want national support, you need to have a successful representation vote overseen by the NMB. Then all these programs that pilot unions came up with (HIMS, ASAP, FOQA, LOSA, TRB, pro standards, known crewmember, CIRP, aeromedical, P4P, pilot assistance, etc) will be fully funded and defended with only your pilots’ interest in mind.
A lot of these seem to have been put in place at OO around the '07 drive in an effort to stop it from succeeding (I wasn't here then, so I could be wrong). Seems to just be a band-aid. Hopefully ALPA is successful this time around because I feel we are really missing out on a lot of great resources. A group of 5,000 pilots could really be influential on the national level when it comes to representing the regional side of the business.