Originally Posted by
Eric Stratton
What is the conflict as you see it?
The conflict is that many of the regional pilots have made their said regional their home and therefore want more mainline scope concessions to keep their carriers cost competitive and as a result gain more flying and advance their career expectations. All of this is good, for a pilot, but for the union they are trying to play both sides, and in the end you could lose it all.
It could be resolved by simply stating that the National Office defers all Scope to its MEC's and the legal team at National is divided up in to mainline representation and regional representation so that there is not a conflict in whom they represent day to day and case to case. That type of thing could go all the way to the top of the pilots deemed it necessary.
Point is that if you are angry enough to de-certify, you probably have enough fire in your belly to effect the necessary change at ALPA. Just a though and how it was present to me.