Originally Posted by
tallpilot
That's a great idea except for the problem of scope. If all the contract carriers pay the same someone will just start up another one. Pilots will flock to the new carrier to have better seniority.
I would like to see Skypest get a union though.
Very possible, but even an arbitrated CBA would be "industry average" which if we were all the same, would match us all. The issue would be the first year or so before they get a union on property.
I agree about Skypest. The student council there has been been riding union shop's contracts for years.
The real change needs to be at the RLA, since when it was written the outsourced business model hadn't been invented yet. Tried to get ALPA National to add "modernizing the RLA commensurate with modern business practices" to the PAC agenda once back in 2014 and it triggered a three hour lecture from every single ALPA National lawyer about why they didn't want to touch the RLA.
Short version.
1 - After working with it so many years they have a good idea what fly's and what doesn't (pun intended) so it works well for the legal department without havng to relittigate all new changes
2 - if we touch it, management will want to touch the law as well.... and they're afraif it will end up worse than it is.
I told them I was glad the RLA works so well for them, but for the folks paying their salaries it doesn't work at all... it fell on deaf ears at the BOD and never made it out of legislative affairs committee.