Originally Posted by
Sniper
It's time for APA and ALPA to get together on this one and put their differences aside for the time being. I'm not advocating APA and ALPA merging, just working together temporarily to improve the lot of all the pilots who get paychecks from AMR.
What differences are you speaking about? Please be specific.
Work together? How? Specifically? What practical, concrete, and actionable leverage does AE bring to the table besides "moral" support (as if AMR cares about employee morale)? Considering their long term contract + several years of negotiations, what can they do besides sit on the sidelines? Spare me the standard "kumbaya" please.
APA pilots don't have anything left to give. It's all been taken by the 2003 rape and cost of living since then. And AMR wants to kill off probably another 1000 mainline pilot jobs through productivity "improvements" and taking a meat cleaver to scope. The prevailing thought is that AMR's bottom line is pay stays as it is, but all benefits and productivity get dumbed-down once again.
Right now AE ALPA is toothless and AMR knows it. AE ALPA is in the box and AMR is not about to let them out of it, regardless of what the APA does.