Originally Posted by
EskimoJoe
Right. So how did Non-Union VX advance the profession? Easy to go full Norma Rae now. What about when it actually Mattered? Like it or not. Alaska Management used VX as a hammer and direct comparison to us during our past contract talks. Why wouldn’t they? A narrow body only Airline with one identical hub and another sandwiched between all the rest of ours?
Of course they used you AGAINST us. It’s Only now that you’re the one living (once again, despite the gains of the rest of the industry), the consequences and repercussions of the long shadow cast by a grossly under paid, non-union VX pilot group, do you become Joe Hill.
Nice try. Look in the Mirror and own the damage VX did to us. VX pilots never did themselves, or any other group, any favors. Welcome to the contract you helped shape Joe.
I really cannot tell if you are just so inept that your medical should be pulled, or that you are trolling.
The legacy AS pilot group sat on their thumbs for decades and they have exactly THAT to show for it. Worst contract in the industry hands down. It is pathetic, it is a joke but it is the harsh reality. The legacy AS pilot group did nothing to fight for industry standard ANYTHING which is why you have no industry standard language. You didn't fight for scope, you didn't for work rules, you have the most archaic scheduling system in the industry along with the worst reserve rules in the industry. You have YOU and the pilots like you who did exactly nothing.
The most action this pilot group has seen is absolutely because of the VX pilot group. They didn't stand for the status quo BS that you guys have slopped up your entire careers. Look no further than the uniform disaster that JL tried to push on the pilot group. Had VX pilots not been on property, you would be wearing a Luly Yang uniform saying thank you sir may I have another. The biggest informational picket in ALPA history didn't happen without the VX pilot group uniting and energizing the legacy AS pilot group and if you think otherwise you are simply silly. How many times did the legacy ALPA MEC put a strike vote out? I will answer that. ZERO. You can literally pinpoint the course change in this pilot group. The tone, the unity, the energy, the moral. It was a tidal shift and it happened when VX came on property. I get it, you have to live with the fact that you spent a career with your head in the sand and now you are watching real change and it sucks that you don't get to take credit for that. But that is what you get for your efforts, no credit.