Originally Posted by
ATCsaidDoWhat
Given the changes that appear to be happening in the Teamsters Airline Division; i.e., cleaning house at Local 747 and bringing aboard people who understand pilots and their contracts, I'd say that they would take the same position as before. Not that they were uninterested, but they didn't want to have a mess dumped into their lap to untangle.
Saying that they weren't interested was merely a copout. Bourne knew that he was going to lose that representational election in a massive landslide, and he didn't want the negative publicity while trying to get his new airline division off the ground. It was a smart move, but claiming that he wasn't interested is a complete falsehood. He wanted AirTran bad.
News out today is that ALPA is now facing an Unfair Labor Practices suit for the way it fired it's own union employees. About a month or so back, they walked away from bargaining and imposed a contract on Unit 1.
I thought this was the kind of crap ALPA was supposed to be opposed to? Or do they speak with forked tongue? It's a pretty sad day when a labor union stoops to the level of airline management.
Makes you wonder how we can trust them to look out for pilots when they are willing to screw their own?
No disagreement here. ALPA has very poorly handled the Unit 1 situation. I tend to agree with Unit 1: if money is a factor, cap Jalmer's salary at $250k. Don't take from the people that are actually making the union run on a day-to-day basis.