Originally Posted by
akulahunter
I don't know if the outgunned, etc is true. From everything I have heard the company is using in-house people (BF, DC, etc) to negotiate. BF has only worked with FAs and has never negotiated a section 6 for pilots. DC is an allegiant quality attorney, take that for what it's worth, but he has never negotiated a pilot contract either. The only real negotiator that the company employed (that I am aware of) was DM and he quit after a few months because of how incompetent the company team was. At least there are a couple of people on our team who have been in negotiations before, albeit none have experience negotiating a contract for a major airline. I tend to lean more towards the company (MG) thinking that we're "different" and refusing to do the things every other airline does. I don't think any union can overcome that. It's going to take a shock to the system that proves that standpoint is incorrect.
I'm not sure if that is good or bad? it looks like the blind leading blind. I have no idea who's done what on management side except for googling linkedin profiles.
who on our team have been in negotiations before? isn't it just Hegland - and he's the one that negotiated our current contract so that's not very comforting. AR, Kenny, Valenzuela, Jay and Josh haven't - i don't believe - ever been in negotiations before. Maybe i'm wrong. i know our culinary attorney has negotiated contracts just nothing RLA related.
https://www.atlasairworldwide.com/20...bor-relations/
DM was a consultant for F&H and then left to be SVP at Atlas. no idea if he quit first and then went to Atlas or what. maybe you know what he was thinking when he left allegiant high and dry.
Originally Posted by
akulahunter
With that being said, I can't argue with the fact that if we were starting fresh, ALPA may be the better choice. I'd even be interested in having that debate AFTER we get a new CBA .
This is something we can 100% agree on.