Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Besides, many ALPA regionals have been and currently are whipsawed against other ALPA regionals (see PSA/Piedmont/Mesa/Air Wisconsin in the Airways system, or Comair/ASA/Pinnacle/Mesaba in the DeltaWest system) and its doubtful changing the bargaining agent would make that stop.
In order to end the whipsaw and set a higher level of pay across the board, a large majority of the individual pilots making up individual pilot groups needs to put their own best interests on pause, for at least a little bit, and accept some short-term sacrifices (in pay, work rules, growth, etc) in order to achive long-term strategic gains.
...and is that really possible?
Exactly. To add, if there isn't enough solidarity to stop management from whipsawing different ALPA regionals, how is it that enough solidarity can be generated to form all regionals under one union? One step at a time.....and regional pilots aren't even close to the first step.