Originally Posted by
seafeye
Since there are a bunch of Regionals about to have contracts expire why doesnt' ALPA come out with a basic standard contract. Including Pay Rates, Duty Rigs, Trip Rigs etc... Then when a contract is up they can just hand over the already written contract and say that this is industry standard and leave it at that.
Management can't keep coming to get pay cuts from us so they can then show a profit. True leaders make money off the top end not cutting the bottom.
That is getting it right
- standard pay and senority rights if you go to
another regional too! All of these likely require a threat to strike, but spreading the flying makes it unlikely any one airline will ever strike again. Every other airline will fight each other like dogs over a bone to get all the struck work the mainlines offer. If there is a way to change things, it would probably require the believable threat of a general strike. Facing a total regional shutdown, mainlines would have to pay what the job is worth or pull all the flying back up to the mainlines (and hire).