Originally Posted by
FXLAX
If you want each pilot group to only use its own dues money solely for their own use, you are advocating for each pilot group to have completely independent unions, ........
A regional pilot group negotiating for as much as they can get to operate RJs does not affect your pilot group’s negotiating top pay for narrow and wide body aircraft, period, full stop There are no competing interest in those two separate negotiations. They are negotiating pay for two separate tranches of flying. That is self evident. So therefore there is no conflict of interest.
nope....I am advocating for the INDUSTRY, iE regional industry, not just one pilot group, but their actual, and legitimate craft and class to negotiate for themselves. Not regional carrier 1, or regional carrier 5. Just the regional airline pilots association. Whomever wants to be a part of that powerful lobby. After all, the regional industry accounts for 52% of commercial flying today.
The other 48% of the scraps that are left over currently goes to mainline carriers. It's messed up!
No one told the mainline pilots that their "tranche of flying" was going to go from 85% to 48%. Maybe a little truth in advertising would be in order. Time to take back our "tranche"
Heck, I get it. the regional s have been doing great at whittling away our flying while building up their industry and on our backs and with our dues money. I totally get it. I wouldn't want that gravy train to stop either.
ALPA needs to start doing its job and represent mainline pilots first. if we can't carve off the regionals, then we need to be smarter in how we give out resources. Not smart to pay for negotiations that work against you.
Before there was a post 9-11 regional industry and before the modern day RJ, ALPA represented pilots who flew the DC-9 and the 737 200. The RJ has been around for a long time. But, they were flown by mainline pilots that had a career path, who one day became 747 Captains. Time for mainline dues to champion mainline priorities for the short and long term interests of the profession.