Cape Air To Vote On Union

[100LL]

The Vote Will Take Place May 30-june 20,2006.

 

[Mr Wu]

Thought you guys were employee owned.

 

[capt_zman]

Why??? I thought people were happy there.

 

[Way2Broke]

Any current Cape Air employees want to weigh in on this one? My money is on Cape Air going union. What local is Cape Air going with? What are the biggest gripes? What is management saying about all of this?

 

[hammer2]

Isn't cape air the airline that flies the 402s around Mass.

 

[Mr Wu]

Isn't cape air the airline that flies the 402s around Mass.

They fly them everyday, not just Sundays

 

[zawillif]

When I was there Cape Air had 2 kinds of pilots: Young pilots trying to build time. Old pilots who love flying, being pic, and coming home every night. For the most part the young pilots supported the union trying to come in (Teamsters, which I think is a joke anyway). The older guys want no part of it, some of them helped build the company 15+ years ago.

The company is very employee oriented and has a great family atmosphere. I wasn't a pilot but from 3 summers of working there it seems that most people are happy and having a great time, I know I did. I hope they vote "no" for that company.

 

[Dave Benjamin]

I met some of the Cape Air guys a few years ago. One was kind enough to allow me to jumpseat even though we don't have a reciprocal. The pilots I spoke with seemed pretty happy with the situation there. To be honest I'm a bit jealous of the route structure and domciles. I could easily envision being quite happy working at Cape Air living on my sailboat and moving between Cape Cod and the Carribean on a seasonal basis.

Anyhow I wish you guys the best and hope that whatever gets decided is a decision that you're happy with in the long run. From the outside it looks like a pretty good company and a great job.

 

[ackattacker]

OK, I'll tackle this one gently.

You can be sure that Cape Air Management knows who I am! It is a small company.

Cape Air pilots taken as an average generally like their job. It's pretty good... home at night, that sort of thing. But wanting a Union and Union protections does not mean that you are disgruntled, that you want to somehow stick it to management, or that you're about to quit. It means that you want the protection of working under a clear-cut and evenly applied set of rules and pay. For all it's strong points, Cape Air has not been very consistent in applying it's own policies and recently went through a very confusing pay freeze (which is still partially and unevenly in effect). This sort of thing increases the Union sentiment.

 

[Way2Broke]

Well said ACK!