Not much more?

There are at least a couple of important issues you would get for the cheap 2% you talk about and I mean other than negotiations, etc.

1. Loss of license insurance
2. Lawyer paid by the Union to assist and represent the pilot in any issue between the pilot and the company or between the pilot and the FAA.


Try to get any of those for what you would pay (2%) for being a member by yourself out there in the open market.

And if you think that a lawyer is not good to have with cost covered by the union then ask all the pilots that been hanged out to dry without any represantation when they had an issue with their company or the FAA.

That is only a small part of what you get. How about the "health insurance", why dont you compare what we got at our fair company and the health insurance that pilots have in Union companies?

When would you say that it is time to get a Union in house, how much worse would you say it has to get?

At Skywest SAPA only represents the Captains if any...they have shown over and over again that they do not give a sh@@t about the First Officers..... and I am not interested in the Union just for help with "pay negotiations".

How much more increased net profit for every quarter, how much more companies to invest 30 million into (Mekong and Brazil) or pay 135 millions for (XJet), how many more loans to United? all that while we cannot afford to pay our First officers a fair salary? Give me a break please.....

Insulting