Why would a SKW pilot applying for a job with an ALPA carrier be a question mark? Wouldn't that mean that they're willing to join the union and wouldn't that also mean that ALPA would be start receiving dues from someone who wasn't paying them before?

I get the union members stick together mentality but I don't understand why people would turn away applicants who want to join their pro-union company.

 

Skywest folks has and will continue to get hired at every Major/ Legacy carrier.

 

I'm to lazy to fill out the UAL app. Will ALPA do it for me if I show? Now that would be cool!

 

I've been saying this for years. ALPA carriers should only hire APLA pilots. This would also bring more groups to APLA. But with the new HR rules its hard now I guess, another boat APLA let sail.

 

It's definitely a step in the right direction, and I wish ALPA can keep it going with their other carriers, and maybe have non-ALPA carriers like AA and SWA hold open houses too.

 

The issue is that management hires and fires not to mention controls the seniority lists.

 

The EEOC may be another reason why. What should happen is that all hiring into the majors should be done through the regionals. To have allowed others to get a head start directly hired to mainline avoiding the low pay and less benefits at regionals has only helped perpetuate the food stamp welfare wages and whipsawing.

 

Actually, if I'm not mistaken your local MEC controls the seniority list, otherwise the company would do as they see fit, as if they don't already!

 

Don't feel bad. It's not just their largest feeder (not that the UAL MEC cares about who management uses for feed), it also includes Horizon, Gojet, Silver, Great Lakes, Cape Air, Allegiant, Virgin America, and a multitude of second and third tier cargo airlines.

Yes, you are an inactive member and should be getting the ALPA furlough benefits (assuming you are still furloughed).

Where does Delta fall in on that? They are required to hire a certain percentage of ALPA pilots. Anyway, I don't think anyone is talking about hiring only union pilots. Because there will always be military pilots that they want to hire. Those would be the non-union pilots.

Do you honestly think that Eagle, PSA, Mesa and republic would have been better of non-union and at the whim of their managements? This is what a lot of anti-union people miss. It's not just the gains. It also mitigating the loses when times are not good.

 

Do you honestly think that Eagle, PSA, Mesa and republic would have been better of non-union and at the whim of their managements? This is what a lot of anti-union people miss. It's not just the gains. It also mitigating the loses when times are not good.[/QUOTE]

I don't think it could be any worse....management seemed to do mostly what they wanted even though a union was in place and when they couldn't they totally f@cked their pilots over. Where was the benefit?
My point, if I were to have one, is that ALPA is a Major airline union and I am curious if you were to ask the pilots who lost their pensions a few years ago how they felt about their union, what kind of response you'd get.
I am neither pro nor anti-union. I honestly do not believe the current representation at the majority of regionals (Compass seems solid) is funcitonal (has teeth).