Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
What could their union fight?
CAL ALPA scope doesn't limit turboprops, it limits turbojets. As such, the XJT MEC could complain but had no legal right or ability to "fight" Colgan getting the Qs instead of Mesaba, Horizon, or anybody else. That was a CAL management decision.
Along the same lines, XJT ALPA couldn't "fight" Continental exercising their contractual right to terminate a quarter of XJT's CAL flying.
People need to educate themselves on exactly what a union can, and what it cannot, "fight"...
yea I know what the union can and cannot fight for...and when you fight you need leverage and expressjet signed that away.
I wasn't even talking about the Q's.
what was alpa's position when express was furloughing while skywest was getting the 120's that express used to fly just a few months before that? whether they could or couldn't legally fight it, what was their position? what was their position when commute air moved into cleveland? their position was oh well lets try and get commute air and skywest to become alpa. sad but that's all they cared about.