What!!!! Everyone didnt?;)

F-14? F-16? Losers! I gave up flying the Space Shuttle Discovery for this job! LOL! :D

hahaha, i still get the, OHHH YOUR THE CO-PILOT, SO WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO BE ABLE TO FLY THE PLANE!!! hahahahha

i think i will make the statement again...

SKW IS THE NEXT MAG


oh i am so hoping for the typical SKW response...wanna compare W2's


i think it will be funny when the find out that RAH got most of the Delta RFP

Any company that treats it's highly skilled employees like trash...........................deserves the UNION it is about to get!!

Amen! I would ignore SlapHappy...hes whats known in the industry as a TOOOOOOOOL!!!

I'm pretty sure SlapHappy would sucker punch his/her mother if Uncle Jerry would pat him/her on the head and tell him/her what a good boy/girl he/she is....

If you fight fire with fire a lot of people might get burned. SKW has got this far without a union. If they unionize I think they'll start to blend in with all the other regionals.

Look at the unionized regionals, besides Horizon most pay comprable or lower than SKW. When you factor in SKW pay structure and work rules I would say that pilot group is better off than most.

So why would you want to give 2% of every paycheck to an organization that represents all the airlines below you?

You're becoming a broken record that nobody else is playing, Newbie. :confused:

A little clarification for the those without a lot of airline experience...

This sort of grass-roots job action (sick-outs, slow-downs) is technically illegal and IS NOT protected labor activity at any union or non-union airline. A real honest-to-goodness strike has to be authorized in advance by the federal government, after years (and I do mean YEARS) of attempted negotiation.

Employees participating in this sort of thing can be fired by a union or non-union company...however the company would have trouble proving that you weren't really sick, so the chances of anyone getting fired are slim.

More likely the company would attempt to identify the ring-leaders, and fire or sue them...yes, the company can sue and will win for economic damages due to an unauthorized labor action.

Actually union work groups are at a SERIOUS disadvantage in this sort of situation. A non-union company would have trouble pinning down the correct people to sue, and even if they did all they would get would be what they own personally. At a union company the company would just sue the union...the courts generally hold that the union is responsible even if it cannot be proved that they instigated it. The assumption is that that the MEC could have and should have stopped it. The company will get a massive judgement (millions, or tens or even hundreds of millions), which the union will have to pay...this means the PILOTS will have to pay...all of them, not just the participants in the job action.


The moral of the sory is that the feds have labor by the short hairs with the RLA. ALPA should be vigorously campaigning to roll back the RLA.

Oh BTW ellen, early FEB is about at the bottom of the post-holiday airline slow-down. Any airline has it's deepest reserve coverage at this point in time, so it would be hard to make a dent with a few sick-calls. That sort of thing works a lot better during peak travel season :rolleyes: