Rez O. Lewshun
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and the squabbling continues......
another version of As the Air Line Pilot Profession Turns....
Stayed tuned for next episodes exciting build up to next months USAPA crescendo!!!
.....this message brought to you by ALPA....the union that blames it's membership for it's own failures.....
....pass the popcorn please.....
A few years ago I was scratching my head over the dues money my union had to spend to defend against a frivolous lawsuit filed by a bunch of booger-eating RJDC losers...who were members of the same union!
Do you have daughters? The reason I asked is that whenever you get angry, you start talking like a 10 year old girl.
Here's my projection for you - all of ALPA's foot stomping over British Airways will come to nothing.
BA management knows that ALPA is complicit with US airline management in facilitating the alter ego debacle in this country. Where do you think BA got the idea that job security is for sale by the mainliners? All airline managments go to the same seminar and talk amongst themselves.
The informational picketing is just show business.
A stretch maybe????IT has to start sometime....
Did the US get religion on slavery too late?
Did the US get religion on womens rights? What about that old woman who wanted to vote all her life only to die just before it became law?
So ASA and CMR scope didn't cover ASA and CMR flying....but Mesa and TSA had scope language that covered their flying......This I got'a hear.....
What is the status of any TSA scope grievance regarding GoJet? Did Mesa file a Freedom grievance?
Isn't the "ownership" of the TSA/GoJet flying really that of their mainline partner according to you...???
B. ALTER EGO POLICY
SOURCE ‑ Board 1980
1. When the management or stockholders of one airline company form another company for the purpose of creating a separate airline entity, it shall be called an Alter Ego company for the
purposes of this section.
2. ALPA will oppose the formation of Alter Ego airline companies and will initiate litigation at every appropriate level to either block their formation or, in the alternative, establish for collective bargaining purposes that the Alter Ego company and the original company are one and the same.
Just to clarify,
TSA Holdings, the owner of TSA, formed GOGET.
TSA apparently was a separate entity owned by TSA Holdings at the time the last contract was signed (So the arbitrator said). The TSA MEC did not have any knowledge of this when the contact was signed.
THEREFORE, TSA had no scope to flying performed by TSA Holding.
GOGET was formed with a half hearted (5 year longevity) attempt to bring TSA pilots (some with 20 years) to the new airline. This was all done during a period of very bad (to be kind) ALPA-TSA mangement relations.
Not many line pilots from the TSA list went over to GOGET. Many since have joined the joined the group including many mainline furloughs. Apparently, they didn't see a problem with working for an alter-ego.
There was a very vigerous campaign led by the TSA MEC to bring GOGET back to the TSA seniority list. It actually led to a vote of the TSA ALPA membership.
This is were it all get very confused. ALPA national said that the new scope was the cat's meow. The MEC were silent. The pilots thought that the vote was to force a final offer.
The pilots voted NO in resounding fashion (90-10).
The company said; Sorry, last chance, over, done.
I never heard of any appeals, GOGET went IBT,
...Democracy is a double edged sword....