Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

ALPA's purpose is to bring pilots together to bargain collectively to improve pay and working conditions to better our profession.

However, since they decided to blow off the whole idea of unionism, they have an ever decreasing amount of leverage. The result is a negative trend line of lower highs and lower lows.

In the absence of unionism, safety remains ALPA's moral high ground.

I wish they would look at scope as a safety issue. If they did, could they live with the scattered wreckage of pilots career aspirations? Each scope renegotiation is a failure of that system. Each pilot furloughed, while another pilot is hired within that same brand is further evidence of a failure. If pilots are forced to walk across arbitrary lines created by management and lose longevity, the system has failed.

I say, put the safety guys in charge of scope bargaining. Lets have black and white analysis instead of constantly falling victim to management's outsourcing "get rich quick" schemes, our own greed at the cost of our profession and the prejudices that we let stand in the way of unity.