Midwest Arbitration Ruling

[PuffDriver]

Not really. ALPA ethics are driven by dues. Midwest has 130 or so active. Next.

Name one small carrier that ALPA has gone the distance to fight something like this since 9-11.

I love the miscalculation was that the regionals would grow this much. Dues lost on regional 90 seat pilots that should have been mainline. Two percent of zero is zero.

The bigger miscalculation was that ALPA didn't recognize we're all in this together. That is where they truly have failed.

I cannot remember the name of the carrier, was it CCAir?, but did not Duane Woerth not sign their TA due to the fact that it didn't meet some ALPA standard. My memory is failing me, but at the time, I believe everyone was going ape shiite because he was "upholding the profession" that you now describe.

 

[Propsync]

I cannot remember the name of the carrier, was it CCAir?, but did not Duane Woerth not sign their TA due to the fact that it didn't meet some ALPA standard. My memory is failing me, but at the time, I believe everyone was going ape shiite because he was "upholding the profession" that you now describe.

Sorry, your post seems to either have too many double negatives, or I can't figure out your point. I wikied CCAir to see if there was anything there (and truthful). I remember JO being in the middle of this, and the page did say Woerth reneged on signing off the contract. I guess my question is for former CCAir guys. Was CCAir supposed to fly the CRJ-900's that ended up at Freedom? I have a feeling the history is complex, but would like to know what was going on.

 

[Rekks Inbound]

Someone needs to have the arbitrator's head examined. Republic does not 'code share' with Midwest; that would require them (Republic) to sell their own ticket stock and have reciprocal ticketing arrangements with Midwest. What they do is is provide contract lift, a very different situation.

That being said, the Midwest pilots' needed much stronger scope language...

Peace.

Rekks

 

[ultrarunner]

If I recall, the MidEx ALPA contract has no scope language at all.

 

[trainer8]

Time to see just how sympathetic the Obama administration is to the labor with a wildcat strike on the Midwest side. If they don't do it now, it won't matter...once Republic is all ramped up, they'll constitute well over half of the midwest brand flying and any work action by midwest pilots would be a pinprick.

Obama won't care and if he did, he'll play by the NMB rules.

If Midwest ALPA gets past a 30-day cooling off period and strikes, Republic will cease operating those flights per their CBA which prohibits flying struck work.

My .02 cents

T8

 

[Propsync]

If I recall, the MidEx ALPA contract has no scope language at all.

At the most it would be something about all of the airplanes on the certificate would have to be flown by Midwest pilots.