Originally Posted by Cujo665

Dude, what does a contractor do? They work for you. These WO contractors work for American, they do not work for Delta, United or JetBlue. They are not AA employees, they Are ENY/PSA/PDT employees.



Recruiters aren't lying to anybody. It is their one and only interview they'll ever take to go from university classroom to 777 cockpit. They will change job titles and work without a CBA, then with an ALPA CBA, and then with an APA CBA.... Still having only interviewed and been hired one time their entire career. The rest will be progression along a structured contractual career path.

It is most definitely not a preferential hiring program like you've been insisting. We specifically designed it to not be.

The fact that they have made it so seamless to go from college to a 777 flight deck is one of the very things they're concerned may be used against them in a single carrier employee class petition. "Cradle to Grave" was the word used at our MEC/company meetings to describe their vision of how the pipeline and flow would work. It has worked exactly as envisioned.

You really should spend some time reading the cases I linked above, and the RLA single carrier criteria.

It's somewhat moot, since it would be difficult to get the ALPA attorneys to file and fight for single carrier since they'd lose 5,000 members. You'd be better off having the three regional MEC's hire an outside firm and do it together.

Getting the mergers committee spooled up - as has been happening recently - is a good idea.