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Well, if you do take a job there then you ARE in fact promoting the management practices. We can agree or disagree on many things but there is no doubt that each and every Gojet pilot hired has "promoted the practices of Gojet management" by simply getting hired - simply put they let the management win their case...
I am no longer a regional pilot and I realize it's 'easy for me' to have an opinion since the TSA/Gojet situation doesn't directly affect me. However, in my view, when a company violates an agreement with the union by creating an alter-ego "company within a company" then the whole idea of belonging to a union pretty much goes out the window. The only purpose of Gojet's existence is so management could avoid having to deal with TSA's union...
Why would the management for any airline want to follow a contract when it's so much simpler to create a 'separate' company and impose the rules on it's employees?
Note - by no means am I a union fanatic however, I think the idea of TSA pilots being furloughed while Gojet keeps hiring is very distasteful to the least. It also proves that pilots will always be their own worst enemies.
Fire away...
ok... I'm new to this arument and have never been a union member. However, I have done a little research on this subject. And, after applying a little logic, I have a question or two.
If a company such as trans states wants to keep pace with the rest of the industry and operate more profitable 70 seaters, how could it do this if its current contract with American prohibits it from operating an aircraft with more than 50 seats? Well, it could start another company in order to go around its contract with American and start operating the 70 seaters it wants to operate.
It seams to me that the purpose of creating Gojet was not to circumvent its contract with ALPA; it was to circumvent its contract with American. It seams to me, if Gojet were to combine the seniority list and treat both pilot groups as one, it would be defeating its entire purpose by admitting that it is basically the same company as TSA, and Trans States would then probably run into legal problems with TSA's contract with American, which prohibits it from operating 70 seaters.
Unless I am missing something (in which case I'm sure some of you will waist no time in pointing out), Trans States is between a rock and a hard place: If they make the pilot's happy they will be jeapordizing their ability to operate the planes they want, but if they take the steps necessary to operate the planes they want then they are ****ing off the pilot's. If I were them, in this case, I wouldn't worry about who I was ****ing off and would do what was in the company's best interest.