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Originally Posted by NWA320pilot
I would never want my career run by ALPA!
Little to do with my point. The point I was making is that the lack of portability of our seniority means we are in reality married to our airlines, for better or worse. Ergo, we're stuck doing pattern-bargaining, and we're stuck with unions and collective bargaining as our only leverage. But our leverage isn't strong when we can be replaced easily and we have an obvious, demonstrated, and logical fear of losing our jobs. When we can bargain for many pilots with many airlines at once, we then are truly using the
collective part of collective bargaining. When you can make pilot costs constant across carriers, you reduce the incentive for one group to ***** against another. It's pretty simple, really.
When you decide to work for someone else, you're no longer independently "running" your career. Not if you can't freelance and move around, anyway. What you would want, and what you have, are two different things. What you have is a world where the pilot next to you is a competitor for your seat,
and the pilot in the next airline is the same. We've had some success with unions in making sure that the next
pilot isn't stabbing us in the heart. I'm only talking about extending the concept to the next
airline.
12-03-2023
