Originally Posted by
Slaphappy
The so-called "whipsaw" is a myth that has never happened at skywest or even asa.
This "talk" on these boards and others like it about a union are coming from xjt and asa pilots who only want skywest to have a union to benefit themselves. They talk about wanting to "help" us but what they really want is a merger so they can start pushing out people from the west coast and poach the positions that open up from the people that have been waiting years to get there.
You are right. We do want to benefit ourselves by getting rid of JA using your pilot group to whipsaw ASA and XJT. It is not a myth. It's reality. Didn't someone say that Inc pulled aircraft from ASA and gave them to SKW? Anything ASA ever tries to do is and always be compared to Skw. That is the definition of whipsaw. They did it to XJT as well with cal being the ringmaster. I was in the room when JA told us that to be "cost competitive" we need to take a 16% paycut! The CPA they had negotiated with cal took that into consideration along with synergy and economy of scale savings so when cal said you either give us as good of a deal skw offers or we will serve you your 12 month notice and wind down the CPA. XJT was forced to sign skw's CPA, we took 7% concessions and here we are again.
This is a real life example of whipsaw!