Originally Posted by
Herkulesdrvr
What is MEC?
Start up companies are going to have non union workers, that is inevitable. At one point SWA was non union, so was DAL, NWA. So what do you suggest those pilots do while they are trying ot organize? Maybe you should try to spread the word instead of tainting it.
The JS that VA and any other non-union carrier enjoys are granted by the MEC (union Master Executive Council) of those carriers. I was responding to the charge that VA pilots are being treated poorly - they are not.
I do not see VA as a future SWA or anything else - the work rules and pay are another blight, hopefully eradicated, on our profession. Yet we still give you the JS, which is not a "right", but a privilege.