Originally Posted by
WorldTraveler
What do we do with our fellow union members who are currently flying those airplanes? Fire them? Buy the express carrier andmerge them in?Offer them preferential hiring? With or without seniority?
They should expect --are are owed-- exactly the identical treatment that our furloughed, down-gauged, and bumped mainline union brothers and sisters received:
nothing.
Since it was only business and nothing personal when they accepted jobs flying for United Express carriers, it is nothing personal and only business when those positions go away. Live by the sword and die by the sword.
They can apply for a job and if competitive be welcomed with open arms at the bottom of the mainline list just like any other new-hire.
I would certainly accept a different process if a
real flow-through/flow-back program existed, but offering 10-year furloughed United pilots jobs at the bottom of the Skywest or Go Jet list (even at 2nd year pay) certainly explains the relationship in black and white.