Originally Posted by
gtechpilot
I'm not bashing the pilot group there, but ask anyone furloughed how easy it is to get info from 'our' union.
As for being unemployed, the only thing I would have asked from the union was for us to have the same flight benefits that the first group had so that I could more easily make it to interviews. Unfortunately, and I am almost quoting what I was told when I asked, the union had little interest in fighting for that when there were so many larger issues to deal with.
As ASA is the one that provides flight benefits, your anger is misplaced. Since we don't "own" furloughee flight benefits in the contract, all ALPA could do is ask nicely. I'm sure they did that, and I'm sure ASA told them to pound sand.