Originally Posted by
BeaglePilot
I see its still business as usual at Colgan Air. Intimidating pilots into taking a flight when its unsafe. I personally know many CA's there who are afraid to stand up and make a PIC decision because they fear for their job. There is so much fear and intimidation from management that the employees have "Stockholm syndrome" believe me when I tell you.
The current EWR Asst. Chief Pilot had an evac due to smoke in the cabin because he left the APU bleeds on during de-icing. A passenger broke several bones in the process, and guess what no discpline..... They promoted him!
CA's getting suspended because a deadheading pilot complained their was a hard landing. The rediciclous stories go on and on.....
And yet ALPA gets all your dues and continues to sit on the sidelines because their official answer for everything is " We currently do not have a grievance policy, and until then we can not represent any crew members." ALPA has attempted to get a grievance policy on paper, but the company has told the pilot's union to go pound sand.
I wish all my friends well at Colgan Air its only going to get worse.
The CJC ALPA has been doing a tremendous amount of work improving the pilot group's QOL and grievance issues....among other areas, as well. All this DESPITE having a contract! In fact, there is a great deal of transparency in what goes on w/ the CJC ALPA committees.
Any pilot employed at CJC that says they are unaware of what their MEC/ committees are doing.......is only unaware due to their own negligence. The information is distributed in multiple media forms. The MEC can only distribute the information......they can't make you read or listen to it!
