BenderGonzales
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LegacyDriver said:The notion that Bedford had the CHQ pilot group over a barrel with J4J is laughable. Look how long it has taken them to get Republic up and running. No sir, we had BB by the short hairs with the strike vote. We should have taken it to the mat and demanded the changes required.
Instead he rattled his sabre at us (just as he is doing to those of you still there now) and people got scared. He bluffed us. Going on strike would have given CHQ pilots insurmountable leverage.
It is a tragically lost opportunity.
Strikefinder said:Get out your history books, folks, since yet another misunderstanding is being dragged out...
Of course, the problem was, Bedford had us by our, ahem, packages and the threat of an alter-ego being created pushed the Chautauqua pilot group to reexamine the J4J contract that had been updated, took the lesser of two evils, and signed a revised version in hopes of eliminating the alter-ego status of Republic. <<>> The bitter pill we swallowed was to surrender a part of our seniority provisions to the J4J pilots, who were given protections not afforded them at their relative seniority in certain situations.
I can't speak for the pilot group on the whole, but there are a lot of vocal opponents to the idea of expanding the J4J program at CHQ. Again, this is not meant to be a slap in the face to the MDA pilots. I do not see any particular benefit for us to sign away more of the scope and seniority provisions of our current agreement solely in exchange for more aircraft.
Nor do I have any particular inkling to go after any more flying (and certainly not concede any part of our agreement to acquire such flying) in larger aircraft, for both reasons of industry solidarity and a desire to motivate Mr. Bedford to elicit positive changes in blatant violations of our work rules and bargaining agreement.
With the apparent lack of interest on the part of the MDA pilots to fly here, I don't know why the USAir pilots would agree--with or without a J4J provision--to allow us to fly them.
Perhaps a court has eliminated such scope in order to make U more competitive, and I'm out of the loop.
If not, however, I sincerely hope that ALPA will settle the issue where it ought to be settled--at mainline.
If Chautauqua is offered such aircraft with the consent of the U pilots, then it has quite frankly gone too far already.
So, to answer your questions (see quote):
1.We don't
2.Though I wouldn't have put it so colorfully, yes
3.Who said we were interested in this at all?