Originally Posted by Blackhawk
This whole thing just demonstrates to me how out of touch labor leadership is with the rank and file. They are more interested in their own power base and increasing their membership roles (more members=more money), than with the conditions of the workers. GoJet was obviously formed to undercut the TSA pilots and, in the name of unity, the Teamsters swoop in and pick them up giving them a level of respectability??? Makes me want to puke.
I'd say that anyone who derives respectability from their association with the IBT is in a world of hurt. The Teamsters have had a hardon for ALPA since they lost the battle over the FEIA 50 years ago. If their little reptile brains think that something they do hurts ALPA, that's all that matters to them. At the end of the day they're just a truck drivers' union-the alter ego problem in the airline industry doesn't matter to them at all.