Of course you do Slaphappy, because you want to see all the flying transition over to Skywest someday and you get a huge seniority bump
No, I want to keep everything to same as it is now. All xjt needs to do is get rid of the scope clause and renegotiate a new one that lets them keep their current flying. Merging the lists is not a good idea it would hurt upgrades for everyone and worst of all it would put skywest up for an alpa vote again which we have already said by 65% we do not want. We don't want a backdoor hijack of skywest by alpa.
HercDriver130
05-09-2008 09:46 AM
I doubt seriously the SKW has any intention of merging XJT and SKW pilot groups. interesting times for sure.
dontsurf
05-09-2008 09:47 AM
Originally Posted by tpersuit
(Post 382561)
We would merge our seniority lists based on hire. It's not like our companies have different career goals.
i think you're confusing a "merger" with being bought. no one (that i know of, at least nothing made public) that any airline MERGE with expressjet. i'm not saying that's good or bad, it's just that there aren't any mergers in the works. your company is being looked at as something to buy by another company. your company would be owned by another company. i understand the contract stuff that everyone's talking about, and it's very well written, strong language to protect your interests no matter what type of "takeover" happens. but skywest inc. will not BUY expressjet with that language, so it might just be a deal killer. that's fine with them and obviously maybe fine with you guys too. my point is that, other than any sort of language in the contract that you have, a company being bought doesn't generally sit around telling the new owners what to do.
comair is owned by delta, right? do the comair pilots tell delta that they want to be based at a delta base? no, of course not. they are owned by delta. delta does its thing, comair does its own thing. if skywest inc. buys expressjet (again, a big IF that would only happen with a change in your contract language that you guys would vote on), you can't then sit around expecting to have some sort of claim to the company that just bought you. i don't even understand this mentality. i guess i could see it if it were a merger, like northwest and delta. but you do know that's not what is on the table with expressjet right now, right?
Slaphappy
05-09-2008 09:49 AM
Originally Posted by HercDriver130
(Post 382581)
I doubt seriously the SKW has any intention of merging XJT and SKW pilot groups. interesting times for sure.
No, but the xjt alpa nutjobs want it badly, because they know the branded will be history soon.
de727ups
05-09-2008 10:05 AM
Too much name calling here. We are trying to keep the site professional and many of you are slinging mud that isn't acceptable. Rather than give out 10 infractions, I'll invite you all to start over but keep refrain from the name calling and flamebait. Thanks.
