Originally Posted by
1515greenlight
I understand what you are saying, perhaps I didn't word it well. When a group elects to join a union, the union (in this case 747) has a fiduciary responsibility to provide the new group the same level of representation as everyone else...and that should be 100%, all the time.
At the end of the day, you have hit on the basic problem, in my opinion, with how 747 was run. Instead of ensuring complete services and representation for all and lifting the newer and smaller carriers up, some got a higher level of service than others, or no service at all. And regardless of where that group fell in the range, none were served as well as they should have.
Everyone should pay their own way. But it's tough to get to that point when you can't get someone to help get there at the bargaining table to help you negotiate and they are pocketing a lot of money (somebody's) on the side.
Hope that helps.
I'm not attacking a pilot group. I'm sure that's how it came off. My point was that RAH paid a lot of money in dues only to be given the same amount of protection as everyone else. With so many more pilots we needed more than the one lawyer running around amongst us all. We could have our own lawyer while other pilot groups share one. For the millions of dollars spent we didn't half that in any sort of legal representation. I didn't mean to imply that because you don't pay as much in dues you don't deserve legal defense. Just that when you have two airlines and one is 10x larger than the other it isn't right that one lawyer be split evenly between the two.