Originally Posted by
Meow1215
Theres that koolaid that ****es the union carriers off, right there.
As a union pilot I can tell you that OO does in fact benefit from union carrier gains. As a matter of fact, a strong argument can be made that threat of OO pilots unionizing is probably more effective than having a union at OO. KCM is paid for by A4A, the origin was ALPA. Part 117, the 1,500 hour rule, the list goes on. Thats not even the main issue.
OO benefits from union carrier setting the baseline, they negotiate, fight, do the work - then OO Mgmt gives SAPA a good enough carrot keep you guys from organizing. So OO pilots continue to reap the benefits of the rest of industry without putting any of the work. The best part is that several of your pilots know it, wouldn’t mind organizing, but because they won’t be there in 5-10 years why should they do any work?
But they happily wear that ALPA pin at DAL and UAL.
We aren’t “not doing any work” You try convincing 4000+ pilots to just hear ALPA out when the QOL is good. On top of that management is pretty good at union busting by saying “look at unions they’re all just a bunch of thugs” then people come to places like here, read all the vitriol you guys have to say and they think “Yeah, management is right . Unions are stupid thugs, we don’t need that here”. Then those of us who want to organize have to constantly fight that BS here and on FB. If anyone really cares about OO organizing, please help me out and S 👏 T 👏 F 👏 U unless you have something productive or constructive to say.