Tank Commander
Jim "Tank Daddy" Bizzell
- Joined
- Jun 29, 2004
- Posts
- 240
I’m not a business major nor a very smart guy, but I’ve study the art of war for 20yrs. Alpa has done a good job trying to hold thing together over the past 7 years. I’ve only been a member for the last two of them. We all at the regional level have seen whipsawing of pilot groups. The out sourcing has began. Ramp workers, A/C cleaners, Mechanics, and now Flight Attendants. You say “but we are not being out sourced “. Yes we are. We, regional pilots are being used to outsource mainline pilot jobs. It’s ugly but true. The careers we work so hard for are the ones that managements are using us to destroy. That is unlit managements figure out a way to train and hire 3rd world pilots that will fly for $10.00hrs, and I’m sure they are looking in to it. In the future the major carriers will be nothing but a name, and an IPO on wall street racking in big profits off low paid labor. We as regional pilots need to find a way to stop the slide. I’ve heard in the past of talk of a regional pilots union. The whipsawing must stop. We are fighting a civil war amongst ourselves. We all just want to work in a career field we love. Alpa had its problems serving two masters. One master was bigger and paid more. Its interest came first. Just nature of the beast. If regional pilots don’t unit under one banner together it will continue. We hold one big card in our hands. We are the now and future answer to the LCC for the legacy airlines. Under one union, we can protect each other and our jobs. One union that can say that is struck work don’t fly it. Right now we have nothing. The legacy carrier we fly under will just bring in another regional that is cheaper to do the flying. Apla doesn’t seem to care or are fighting bigger battles somewhere else. We need to stand, and stand soon.
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