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Originally Posted by rickair7777
That's fairly inflammatory. This kind of discussion is one of the reasons it's so hard to GET a union at SKW...it alienates people.
The current student council is the best we have ever had, and the elected group is better and more motivated than the majority of regional union MEC's
Maybe yamaha hasn't worked under alpa but I have...I've seen it at it's worst so you can't fool me or the other thousand or so who have BTDT. I would actually like some sort of union at SKW (and one list) but you're not helping any...
I'll second this. Our "student council", while not having the legal teeth of a union or a binding agreement, most definitely does not bend over at management's whims. I know several of our past and current SAPA reps and they most definitely are not management stooges or KoolAid drinkers. To some extent, Chip takes SAPA seriously because if he doesn't, it would only fan the flames of unionization. In addition, most reps I know of have been active union supporters, and some of them had been involved with bringing ALPA to SkyWest. They're really doing the best they can.
I too would like one list, as native SkyWest people would hate to see EMB-145s flying in SFO just as much as native ExpressJet people probably hate seeing our CRJ-700s in IAH. It would be nice to not worry about which plane UAL is going to shuffle where and when. I too would like a union. Doesn't have to be ALPA, but I did vote in favor of ALPA the last time.
Uneducated, uninformed, or otherwise cavalier SkyWest pilots see comments like goaround's and are instantly turned off by the idea of a single list or any union representation, which I think would ultimately be good for all of us.