Originally Posted by RJSAviator76
Let me put this in your context:
You started flying for your boss in a Citation Ultra. He traded it for a CJ2+ and that's what you're flying now - and you got a little raise. Now, your boss decides he'll start using contract pilots on some trips instead of you and he'll dock you pay for flights/days he used contract pilots. Adding insult to injury, these contract pilots make 50% less than you do. So now, your boss decides to trade in the CJ2+ and get a Sovereign. He'll use those contract pilots to cover the trips and this leaves you high and dry. Now... you're ticked off at the whole situation, but now those contract pilots start telling you how wrong it is what's happening to you, how it sucks that you're in this position, and how there's nothing they can do to help it.
Considering I was an ALPA volunteer during my stint at a regional I fully understand the implications of this, but I think that your parallel to 91 is flawed and while I'd love to elaborate, I don't have the time...perhaps later.
I tend to disagree. There's plenty they can do... but they choose to extend fake sympathies to you instead of actually doing something about it. Is this not hypocrisy?
What would you have them do? Usurp their seniority and give away those seats which are rightfully theirs per their negotiated and hard-fought for CBA, overlooking their own currently furloughed pilots whom they have a duty to represent before the pilots of any other airline?