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ALPA Prepares to Welcome AirTran Airways Pilots
NPA Votes Overwhelmingly to Merge with ALPA

WASHINGTON—The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), is extremely pleased by the AirTran pilots’ overwhelming vote in support of a merger with the world’s largest pilots union. A landslide 87% of AirTran pilots cast votes in support of merging with ALPA, with more than 94% of eligible AirTran pilots voting. The National Pilots Association (NPA) currently represents the nearly 1,700 pilots of AirTran Airways.

“With this decisive vote, the AirTran pilots made it clear they want representation by a strong international union that is run by airline pilots and for airline pilots,” said Capt. John Prater, president of ALPA. “We look forward to working with the AirTran pilots and to providing the union’s unparalleled professional resources and expertise, as well as the support of other ALPA pilots in Atlanta and across the country, to help them achieve and enforce the fair contract they deserve.”

The merger decision must be ratified by ALPA’s Executive Board when it meets on April 28-29. If that happens as expected, the merger will be effective on May 1, 2009.

Founded in 1931, ALPA is the world’s largest pilots union representing more than 52,250 pilots at 35 airlines in the U.S. and Canada.
 
The Airtran guys already learned the hard way about in-house unions and the Teamsters are worthless so what else does that leave?
 
The Airtran guys already learned the hard way about in-house unions and the Teamsters are worthless so what else does that leave?

ALPA is not the way to go. In house unions are always better only if it is run correctly. We all need to take a better look at SWA.
 
ALPA is not the way to go. In house unions are always better only if it is run correctly. We all need to take a better look at SWA.

SWA's in house union is not responsible for the working environment their pilots enjoy. SWA management is. How would you explain the train wreck that currently governs the pilots at Airtran (the NPA)? There must be a reason why 87% of their pilots don't want an in-house union anymore.
 
ALPA is not the way to go. In house unions are always better only if it is run correctly. We all need to take a better look at SWA.

There is only one problem with that thought. It's called airline MANAGEMENT. Unions do not run airlines, airline management runs airlines. They can either work with employee's and put employee's first(i.e...swa) or rule by intimidation (i.e...every other airline out there)

When you have a rule by intimidation / divide and conquer management style a swa union will not work.
 
When you have a rule by intimidation / divide and conquer management style a swa union will not work.

The Southwest Pilots Association would get the sh*t kicked out of them by a NWA style management group.
 
Does this everyone gets a pay raise and more days off?
 

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