Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
Care to give an example? And please don't point to SWA or UPS, as the union had nothing to do with relative values of those contracts. They have both been extremely profitable over the years, yet their pay has always lagged the industry.... until everyone that mattered went bankrupt.
I guess it is obvious the independent union had "nothing to do with the value of those contracts", because you say so. Thank you for clearing that up for me. While profit does play a role, those independent unions have the strongest scope in the biz. AMR also has more restrictive scope as well did Continental at the time which was independent. Tell me why the independent unions have much stronger scope language than the ALPA groups. The reason should be obvious to all of us. To me there is no more important part of a contract than SCOPE.