Originally Posted by
Koolaidman
A union would not have worked here because of attitudes like that. Our pilot group was all fired up and unified for about two weeks after the union drive failed. Now, we are back to drinking the Kool Aid!!!
Not necessarily. With ALPA, the MEC tells the negotiating committee what to negotiate and what not to negotiate. They bring the results to the MEC and the MEC decides whether to send the negotiating committee back to the bargaining table to improve the deal or to send it to the pilots for ratification. In other words, the MEC is decides whether a deal is good enough before sending out to the pilots with "attitudes like that." Hell, if the MEC's policy allows, they don't even have to have the TA ratified if they didn't want to or require it to have a super majority for it to be ratified.