Peter North said:
outofAAjob said:
From what I've heard they won't even interview us, so you won't have to worry about making a decision-it's been made for you. Good to see their MEC showing gratitude to those carriers that paid their strike assessments. The seniority number question is a semi-valid management concern, but I don't really see why that means fellow ALPA carriers shouldn't at least attempt to support each other.Sabre60 said:
Marko Ramius said:
If they are bringing in some UsAirways people, more power to them. The information I got was from several UAL furloughees who went to a career fair, along with the usual grapevine stuff(you know Air Inc said so, etc). I fully understand the management view on this, although I personally think it is flawed since many of us will be on the street for at least 3-5 years. I think the primary reasons that most regional airlines management want to shy away from furloughees are something different from what they publicly state-but that's a moot issue to my point in the previous post. What I was referring to was the fact that Comair's MEC along with the MEC's from other ALPA regionals that are hiring don't seem to have any interest in supporting their fellow union members by attempting to get their carriers to interview ALPA major airline furloughees for these positions. It is my understanding that they are doing this for other carriers like Midway, just not the major airline people. Comair in particular, because their union did recieve a lot of money in the form of strike assesments from other ALPA pilots during their strike. Additionally, my particular carrier put out a letter supporting Comair pilots for any future pilot openings-I know that we had stopped interviewing by then, but at least we thought about it and tried. I'm sure many other ALPA carriers did the same, now that favor seems to only be returned to some of those who helped. The point I was trying to make is that the issues of how long we are going to be there or whether or not we will resign our numbers are managerial issues that the union leadership at these carriers seem to be hiding behind to not support helping out furloughed members of their union. I fail to see what threat we pose to lthe careers of the local union members at those carriers, so I fail to see why their MEC's are opposed to helping out. I don't pretend to ignore the animosity that has and still does crop up between major and regional pilots, but if this is part of some bigger message along those lines it would be wrong(i.e. if Comair refused to hire furloughees to underscore their points about one list, by inflicting some hurt on DALPA). UAL's MEC was against Comair and ASA's list merger attempt, but it didn't make them say that they wouldn't hire Comair/ASA pilots or stop them from issuing a letter supporting their hire during the strike. The door should swing both ways. I have no firm evidence to say that this is the reason behind the silence of the MEC's at the regionals, but the longer they stay silent, the more I have to question the motives as to why.Sabre60 said: