Originally Posted by WstCstSlave

Ameriflight needs help! In the last year a half we have a Director of Flight Op’s who has managed to also take over the Chief Pilot position. Under this self serving leadership moral has gone from bad to absolutely rock bottom. We have pilots sitting reserve and doing very little flying at some west coast bases, yet we are hiring more pilots we don’t need. Together with the training department, base assignments and higher paying equipment are being give to these new hires or low time training pilots without being put up for bid.. Pilots are being forced to push flight time limits.( You really didn’t go over your 15 Hr’s so we have to give 10 Hr’s rest did you?). MX issues being down played, etc. When long time pilots complain they are either forced to resign or fail check rides that are obviously rigged before they ever start. On a weekly bases pilots come through Burbank that are fed up with the lack of respect and concern for their basic rights and work conditions. With AL as both DO/CP and SH running the training department we are desperate for union representation. They have proven time and time again that they are habitual liars, whose main concern is for their own personal agenda without regard for the pilots that are out there busting their behinds every night. We were in contact with the IBT, until their problem’s took priority and now we need help while the pilot group is united as it is for collective bargaining and job protection with due process. Any union reps or anybody with any ideas on how to get started again, please help. The anger expressed by the pilots coming through Burbank is an indication of the system wide frustration with AL and SH running this company into the ground, I can guarantee at least an 80% vote for union representation. A certified pilots union would be preferable, but at this point we will even the UAW or the Service Workers union would be voted in. Any union reps please help. Go to any Amerflight base and at least 2 out of 3 pilots will be willing to help. Since I have been with Ameriflight this is not the first time the pilots have tried to organize. This however is by far the most fed up and united we have been as a whole at all bases. Hurry while AL and SH are still in their positions and are uniting the pilots for union representation.
Thanks for any and all help!