Originally Posted by
FloridaGator
We have all been "educated" as to why a pilot group can not use ALPA dues dollars during a merger or acquisition. ALPA doesn't want to be funding both sides of the fight. Example: Northwest & Delta. Each pilot group needed its own merger fund aside from ALPA dues to pay lawyers to make arguments about seniority, domiciles, etc.
But Delta and Northwest had always been considered career airlines. You wouldn't usually quit one of those companies to go to a bigger and better company.
What of the circumstance that someone is furloughed from Comair and goes to work for another airline. Then by some miracle (for Comair) this "other" airline decides to buy Comair from Delta.
This furloughed employee has paid into the Comair merger fund by coercion and force and now is actively flying at his or her new airline and must pay into a merger fund at that airline in attempt to protect his job and seniority from Comair.
Why is it OK for this person to be funding both sides of a merger battle but it is not OK for ALPA to do so?
Do our retarded reps not understand what they are doing here? It is time to return the Merger fund. 33% of the people that were bullied into paying that ransom money are no longer at Comair. These 500 or so pilots are owed this money back.
The bottom half of the new (1000 pilot) seniority list should not have to pay, or not have to pay nearly as much as the top half. Everyone knows how the bottom half would get screwed in an integration.
Of course, the real truth is that there will never be an integration of Comairs list with anyone.
Yes there will be. You will be happy to know that they are working with the local unemployment office to get Comair Pilots even number status(just show up and get in line 2 people behind the other OH pilot, if your first pilot there that day, your automatically number 2. $235 well spent). Major hang up though, a lot of local people are complaining that pilots are getting in between Kentucky cousins(for you people out west or local kentuckians, that last comment is about incest). And they will sell that crap like they did something good, by saying it was the best we could get. After lawyer fees we owe more money.