Originally Posted by TonyWilliams

Not sure folks in general at SkyWest would agree with you now, or at least the last 4 votes for a union suggest otherwise. This, in my opinion, was one of the many faults of the last union drive.

As a guy who was fired from SkyWest quite unceremoniously last summer, pretty much black listing me from descent part 121 hiring for the rest of my life, I gotta say that I liked working for SkW.

And I didn't think ALPA was the answer then, nor do I now. I honestly wish somebody would get a SkyWest Pilot's Union going, and get off the "but we're too tiny" mentality.

Combining lists with ASA could certainly pan out to be awesome in turns of leverage to SkW, Inc, but the reality is, there will be more contentious issues than harmony. What percentage of list integrations went smoothly? Of those, how many of those integrations were voluntary? The odds aren't good.

Then, the even bigger question; how many at ASA would want to give up ALPA to jump to an upstart, unknown union. The point is, forming a union contingent on the idea of ASA, or any future airline SkW will buy (and there will be more XJT, Scenic Air, Sun Aire, and ASA type purchases in the future) is a bad plan.

Form a union, and make it the best damn union in the business. Bar none. Then, if ASA wants to join up, lay the cards out on the table, and let them vote.

So, I think an in-house union is great, but a combined list / union with ASA might even keep Chip up at night (hey, I like and respect him... it's just business).