Originally Posted by
Eric Stratton
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.
What exactly did XJT sign away?
There are lots of pilots at XJT now that think XJT should be doing TP flying. ALPA doesn't make the business decisions for management. Management decided to go to a single fleet type, not the pilots.
ALPA would've tried to organize CommutAir and Skywest regardless.
Originally Posted by
Koolaidman
Why would SkyWest already send people to learn about the ERJ if it is just a negotiating tactic? I am pretty sure that they already have begun the process, and I assume that it costs money to get the certification for the 145?
Sometimes negotiating tactics cost money. Its could very well be seen as a small investment, to gain leverage, for a possible big return on that investment.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
SKW would not merge the lists...they would have not gone to all that trouble to fight off alpa and keep ASA seperate if that was an option. Not so much out of concern for the pilot situation, but because the company has portrayed a certain philosophy to their other employees, and would not want to do a 180 on that.
Anything is possible for the right price. I kid, I kid.
