JackFlyer, GoJet is exactly like Freedom. Freedom was created to get around scope restrictions at US Airways that prevented their code share partners from operating greater than 50 seat aircraft, or thereabouts, for anyone. Ornstein wanted to get into the 70 seat and greater market and started Freedom to do so. That is exactly what is happening at Trans States. Not to mention that the TSA pilots start contract negotiations this winter, another parallel to the Mesa ordeal.
GoJets is not union despite what the Teamsters website says. Four management pilots had signed cards and voted in the teamsters. Certification was later dropped but the reason depends on who you believe. There are three reasons I have heard, the first is that the management pilots temporarily dropped certification to voluntarily comply with some ALPA demands. The second is that the Teamsters attempted to organize the pilots under the RLA for an airline that doesn't even have a certificate yet, therefore certification couldn't take place. The third is that Woerth called Hoffa Jr. and explained what was going on and he suspended certification.
The GoJet pilots aren't scabs but they aren't much better. As you and many others know, pilots are a part of the interview process at every airline that at least I can think of. Why would they want someone at their airline who has shown their willingness to stab fellow pilots in the back? Go back to the posts about the rally and read the list of airlines that had representatives there to show their support for the TSA pilots. You will find most of the airlines hiring now with their representatives saying they will do everything they can to ensure no GoJet pilots will be hired at their airline. Maybe it's just posturing but I wouldn't be willing to take that chance. And maybe some Freedom guys did slip through the cracks and get jobs somewhere else, but they are still scum bags.
You claim that the TSA MEC was offered the opportunity to do the flying at GoJet. Well I would love to hear your source and how the MEC wasn't able to "produce".
I am not a contract lawyer and I'm willing to bet neither are you. The truth is you have no idea whether GoJet violates our contract or not. You have no ground to claim that our contract is not being violated.
Finally, if you don't have any stake in GoJet then why do you care? And don't give me the "scab is being misused" line. You do a lot more than provide definitions, you defend them.
GoJets is not union despite what the Teamsters website says. Four management pilots had signed cards and voted in the teamsters. Certification was later dropped but the reason depends on who you believe. There are three reasons I have heard, the first is that the management pilots temporarily dropped certification to voluntarily comply with some ALPA demands. The second is that the Teamsters attempted to organize the pilots under the RLA for an airline that doesn't even have a certificate yet, therefore certification couldn't take place. The third is that Woerth called Hoffa Jr. and explained what was going on and he suspended certification.
The GoJet pilots aren't scabs but they aren't much better. As you and many others know, pilots are a part of the interview process at every airline that at least I can think of. Why would they want someone at their airline who has shown their willingness to stab fellow pilots in the back? Go back to the posts about the rally and read the list of airlines that had representatives there to show their support for the TSA pilots. You will find most of the airlines hiring now with their representatives saying they will do everything they can to ensure no GoJet pilots will be hired at their airline. Maybe it's just posturing but I wouldn't be willing to take that chance. And maybe some Freedom guys did slip through the cracks and get jobs somewhere else, but they are still scum bags.
You claim that the TSA MEC was offered the opportunity to do the flying at GoJet. Well I would love to hear your source and how the MEC wasn't able to "produce".
I am not a contract lawyer and I'm willing to bet neither are you. The truth is you have no idea whether GoJet violates our contract or not. You have no ground to claim that our contract is not being violated.
Finally, if you don't have any stake in GoJet then why do you care? And don't give me the "scab is being misused" line. You do a lot more than provide definitions, you defend them.
