Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Truer words have never been said. What I don't understand is why pilot groups can't hire competent lawyers to review their contract proposals...this is too often a recurring theme, and not just at regionals.
I can't recall..do alpa/teamsters national hire a professional law firm for contracts, or do they have some good-old-boy in-house counsel who's too drunk to hold a real job somewhere else?
Many times they have in house attorney's but most hire additional outside counsel.
3 problems.
1. Need to hire professional negotiators, not pilots. Pilots are too much of control freaks to think that there are other people who can do a better job at anything than themselves.
2. Pilots are too cheap to pay for representation on par with what management uses against us.
3. Most pilots aren't bright enough to look past pay rates and see that the compensation chapter is probably the least important chapter in most contracts.