Originally Posted by
seafeye
Enough is enough. We need to be spending our Alpa money on professional negotiators with the sole purpose of making our lives worth living. We need to scrap the Railway Labor Act and make an Airline Labor Act.
It might take 10 years but it will be well worth it.
Safeeye, Let me add 3 points:
1. ALPA has professional negotiatiors and a staff of Experts and they don't cost you a dime extra. Maybe your personal MEC didn't or doesn't utilize them properly, but if you are ALPA you have them at your disposal.
2. Changing the RLA isn't the real issue, it is having an Administration who allows true bargining to occur under the RLA (or NLRB if you prefer).
3. Even if you have both of the above under the best of circumstances, you (we) won't get squat unless your Pilot group is 100% behind your negotiaitors and leadership. If the line Pilots aren't willing to "walk the walk" (after all the talk at the table) and most importantly to Stand as "ONE" behind your negotiating committee, you will only get what MGT offers you, which is usually table scraps.