Union Shop and Compare...

[Microclimates]

So let's say you were headed to the market to buy a coupla pounds of union. You've never had Union before, you see, so you want to shop and compare. My question is, anyone has any thoughts about which is best value?

Alpa seems the default choice, but lately other alternatives have been getting a little press... so who wants to put in their 2c?

thanks!

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

To be honest, now isn't the time to be shopping for generators and plywood for the Perfect Storm. The Perfect Storm is here and is wrecking havoc on our expectations.

You, the reader, or we should have been stocking our war chest a long time ago. You don't study the night before for a Proficiency Check, and you don't wait to get your career handed to you in a wet brown paper bag.

Someone will fly jets in this country in 10 years. Who it will be and what they will get compensated is the question. Management just is just fine with foreign nationals flying our jets for nickels on the dollar. It is their wet dream.

We are blue collar labor. We do not control the airlines. The only people who will reap (or rape) the money is the owners, investors and corp elite.

If we do not get educated on the process of what is happening we will be finished and NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT JUST HAPPENED!

Many of us are looking at 2007 as a comeback year. Management has in place a game plan to ratchet us down so bad, that when the good times come back there will be no UAL2000 or DAL 2001. After the passenger pilots are flying narrowbody and widebody jets for double digit rates, the cargo CEOs are going to wonder why they are paying thier pilots triple digits hourly rates.

Trying to weather the Perfect Storm in hopes for better times is wishful thinking. If you want to control (what you can) it is time to become an activist for the Air Line Pilot Profession.

Legislation, education and activism are our protection from the Perfect Storm

Yes, this post is doom and gloom, but it is what it is. Alarmist and realist in one....

 

[Microclimates]

Thanks, Rez,

There are a few carriers that are still non-union. There's a lot of pressure on the pilot group to decide what to do about it. Unfortunately, there is only one union group that is aggressively campaigning, while recently, other groups have had successes in negotiations (IBT for ex)

So i guess what I was asking is if there is anyone who has any thoughts about the different representation out there

seeya