Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I would be open to that. Actually it was tried two union drives ago but the alpa folks alleged that an in-house union would not have the needed financial resources to operate. I haven't tried to run the numbers, so I'm not sure. Of course we have a lot more pilots now than back then.
Of course an independent union at Skywest would have the resources. Even a pilot group of a few hundred pilots can have an independent union with resources to run itself. There have been many in the past. The point I think those people are making is that unless you have something like 5000 members, you wont have the resources that ALPA has from its 50,000+ members. And even then, its always ALPA that congress calls on to testify about anything pilot. Even the Hudson accident had congress asking ALPA to testify about, not USAPA.
I don't think that you would be successful with a union drive right now at Skywest. But there may be a time when management finally throws the pilots under the bus and then it may be possible.