Originally Posted by
Nevets
This would not necessarily happen at an ALPA carrier. The MEC charges the negotiating committee with the top priorities to improve in negotiations, whats off the table, what would be icing on the cake, etc. The negotiating committee takes their marching orders into to the table with management. Once they have something, they take it back to the MEC for the MEC to decide whether to send the negotiating committee back to the table or to accept the TA. The MEC decides what and when a TA goes to pilot ratification. None of this happens in a vacuum since the MEC is composed of democratically elected pilots who have the ear of the line pilots telling them what they want from the TA.
Total Garbage, it sure happened at my last ALPA carrier, much worse than at SKW.
MEC's are always old guys (just like SAPA) and tend to be biased towards the old-guy point-of-view. Just human nature in action, not unique to SAPA or ALPA.
This is particularly true at the regionals, where the FO's are young, inexperienced, and mostly worried about their iPod and getting laid on Friday.
ALPA is not a magical, mythical, holy institution. It's just an organization, subject to all of the usual failings of human endevours everywhere. It has an advantage in collective bargaining, but that's about it.
Let's summarize...you say ALPA does NOT bias towards the old guys: Two words for you pal...
1) Prater
2) Age 65
Q.E.D