Originally Posted by
NoJoy
I would bet good money that SkyWest will not get a union any time soon. Especially ALPA. Why would the best regional in the country want to destroy themselves by voting in a union. I remember when I was flying out of DEN, and the ALPA reps were giving away free lunches (Hydies) to SkyWest pilots, just to schmooze them-then the same pilots voted down the union a few months later. I laughed and laughed. I enjoyed the free lunch though-
I agree, most people who say skywest will be union think that only the 33% that voted for alpa will vote again and thus be an easy win for them. They ignore the fact that the majority of people that didn't vote didn't want alpa and voted no. Most of the people that voted for alpa have left. I bet if you take everyone who was on the OC from the drive 2 years ago that 70% have left skywest. If we do grow we will have to hire tons of people and those peopel will not want alpa. It will be closer and be within a few points but it still will be voted down and if it gets voted down again it will be decades.
there is no drive going on not even a glimmer of starting another one. There are a few whiners on the sapa forums but all they do is complain and there are less than 10 of them. I remeber they said "let's all put alpa icons next to our name so we can start a new drive" there are less the 5 people that have it up right now. It is almost sad.
My advice to asa and xjt is get your own house in order before you try and pull skywest into this mess. Jerry will eat you up and spit you out. Jerry isn't some gutless wonder like jim ream, you don't become the richest airline in the US by being stupid. Jerry is 10 steps ahead of you. The unions are trying to figure out if what jerry did was legal with Asa buying XJt to get around scope and all the while jerry has already planned out any legal fights to the end. You guys are like a homeowners associtation trying to stop the federal government from building a freeway in your backyards.