Originally Posted by
Pineapple Guy
What's not to like about that? By my line of thinking, any contract that increases outsourcing to the lowest bidder violates his objective, and thus he has offered national level resources to ensure the greater good for the entire profession. Anyone who thinks the greater good rests with more outsourcing to the lowest bidder is wrong; and no where in his statement does he indicate that is his purpose. Similarly, any regional contract that tries to undermine a fellow regional is also focused "solely on self-interests and will inevitably lower the high standards that this union has established for eight decades and in the end hurt all of us" and thus, is also, against national ALPA policy.
OK, no more increased outsourcing as it undermines collective bargaining efforts at the majors. Also, no more undercutting of one another at the regionals in an effort to take flying away from fellow regionals. How about going a bit further? What if CAL/UAL, for example, were to not only stop increased outsourcing, but in fact reduce it or "take it back" to CALs 50-seat level at the expense of their regional partners and subsequently cause many regional pilots to lose jobs? This in turn would give those regionals with looser scope to then undermine the now higher CASM 50-seat UAL/CAL regionals.
In other words, isn't taking it back from the regionals as undermining as giving it out? In SuperSunday terms, a good defense is necessary to stop the advance, however, you need to ultimately advance the ball in the other direction to win. Football isn't a zero sum game.