Originally Posted by
EskimoJoe
The very presence of VX undermined two contractual cycles here at Alaska. If we didn’t have the dead weight of a non union carrier that paid Captains around $90.00/hr we may have been able to make farther gains. The Company, of course sites VX as “The Competition” and we had to remain competitive by working for a discount. VX did nothing in its entire history to advance this Career. Just a fact.
Lol….. Yeah, probably didn’t have anything to do with the fact that you had members of Union leadership being groomed for management positions, or an “industry leading” no strike clause, or didn’t negotiate scope like literally every other carrier did 20 years ago, or that Union leadership wouldn’t even show up to a picketing event because they picked up a trip out of open time….. yeah…. It’s VX’s fault. (For the record, I’m not a former red tail driver)