Originally Posted by
Zoomie
You sound so confident in TA1 failing. I don’t disagree with you. I said myself, I would take that bet. I said ALPA National will not.
ALPA knows too much $$ is on the line to take that chance.
And if you don’t think United would get rid of ALPA if TA1 ended up passing, your kidding yourself. That’s the old United, brother. The legacy guys here are already the minority. We have 2000 pilots new this year alone.
Also, if u think TK and LCAs leave if TA1 passes, I think you forgot to read the TA. While their are concessions for TK and LCAs, they also get bigger raises and TK gets a huge raise. It doesn’t mean TK instructors and LCAs wouldn’t be ****ed, but that’s because they know they won’t always be an LCA or instrcutor. They definitely wouldn’t want to work under the TA1 turd as a jr lineholder or a reserve CA.
No one would leave TK and the company would have the United Next they wanted from a training perspective. Sr and med seniority pilots would be ****ed and probably stop picking up OT over the holidays. When they see the new Jr guys getting thr premium pay, the Sr guys would start picking it up again.
New pilots would not be hard to find, we have 500 NEW AC on order due to be delivered in the next 5 years and would have the best payrates for the next year most likely (minus Alaska).
Dont be naive in thinking there’s no chance this turd passes.
Make sure you talk to every single person you know and make sure to share with them why they need to log on and vote no. Remember also that the vote stopped in the middle of the summer and some pilots think TA1 was already cancelled.
This would be the biggest blunder in all of aviation unions, but it still wouldn’t stop training or hiring.
This had a BIG pay raise for TK folks, not so much for the LCA cadre if you read the fine print. Specifically for those doing QCL and line check work, which is probably 40% of the LCAs. When you added that a lot of the ancillary incentives for LCAs were all the companies discretion, I think many TK guys/gals would look at this as a short term win, long term loss… however TA1 was/is as underwhelming for LCAs it was for line pilots. A passed TA would certainly see a lot of people taking their widebody bids, or just going back to the line in hopes for premium pay