Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No we are not benefiting from every union carrier. A few yes, but not mesa, colgan, TSA, gojet, 9E, etc, etc.
Most union regional pilots just pay their dues and get raped anyway by their MEC, the upper 15% of their own list, alpa national, and management. But they get a cool magazine...
How about if you absolutely MUST respond to Slaphappy that you leave the rest of us out of it...
Actually I kind of suspect that slaphappy works for ASA anyway.
I said I wasn't going after the SKW pilot group as a whole. As far as Slaphappy goes....read some of his other posts....he is SKW, and a microcosm of what is wrong with the profession. He also has a strong distaste for ExpressJet.
I quote one of his gems:
Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
The majority of people at skywest do NOT want a union. Its been done many times in the past and each time less and less people vote in favor. The last 2 years have shown the people skywest how lucky they are NOT to have one. Why would people vote for one now all of a sudden? I cam to skywest because that criminal organization known as Alpo wasnt' here. If you don't like it LEAVE!
WOW.
I am not saying unions are the greatest thing ever. Just like any organization, it has some serious drawbacks. ALPA national, for example, I don't have warm and fuzzy feelings for. But XJT ALPA, for the most part, does a very good job, and we have many things as a pilot group we would not have if we weren't unionized. The positives
heavily outweigh the drawbacks. Hell, form your own in house union if you don't want ALPA.