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Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy. I don't think they exist.If we are to call non-union workers getting union work scab/scumbag then what do we call union workers getting union work?
Goat
they have opportunity to vote ALPA in we shall see?
Yes this is a union / non union deal, but what is really putting fuel on the fire is longevity. Longevity affects all of us, and the carriers we work for.
Considering the destruction of longevity and the fact that CVG is likely to go junior, 18 year Comair pilots making over $110K with benefits will be replaced by SkyWest pilots making only 55 to 70% as much (talking round numbers).
Eventually longevity will catch every airline and the destruction of our careers (no matter where you are at) will be the result. The only solution is to organize and establish scope which prevents our replacement.
There is a fundamental difference in the way a pilot looks at an airline and the way airlines view pilots. We pilots want to retire in the left seat of the biggest airplane 30 years from now while holding a good schedule. Airline management is focused on costs going into next quarter and see the senior pilots with vacation time, sick time and the benefits of senior bidding as over paid prima donnas that can be replaced by a new, enthusiastic, wet behind the ears flight school graduate for 50% of what they are paying now.
Comair's pilot group did everything the best they could for themselves - even to the point of betraying the ASA pilots - but it has not worked. Comair's concessionary bargaining did not work either. There are lessons to be learned here. Longevity makes more of a difference than contracts. Airline management will pick a few airlines to grow like weeds, then take them out by shifting flying to another new market entrant.
Why is Delta willing to walk away from a four Billion dollar investment? Because destroying longevity results in cost savings now. Instability and destruction saves money if the flying can be transferred to junior pilots.
The writing is on the wall for all successful airline subcontractors and the cycles will be violent. Grow like crazy for 5 to 7 years, then stagnate and die while management flows over to a new certificate and pilots start over from the bottom.
Brian LaBreque at ASA explained the cycle years ago and it is surely coming to pass.