Seniority has been compromised in so many ways through scope and code-shares and mergers and dumb luck- yet alpa has refused to even look at doing it different.
ALPA has looked at it repeatedly, there are simply no viable alternatives.
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Seniority has been compromised in so many ways through scope and code-shares and mergers and dumb luck- yet alpa has refused to even look at doing it different.
And which company arranged the outside investors?AWA did not spend a penny for U. It was all outside investors.
Gillegan's bias for DOH (which i personally disagree w/) doesn't refute the argument that in all the flooding of ALPA emails and snail mails - that they failed to inspire or answer a LOT of legitimate questions.
As a former USAir pilot, I watched this with interest. About the only argument that I heard from the pro-ALPA side was that an independent union was incapable of providing the support that a national union could.
Whatever the outcome, I don't think that anyone will disagree that this has been a complete mess - and it's a mess that certainly started with ALPA.
I have never once heard an AWA pilot acknowledge that a large number of east pilots might have been unfairly disadvantaged by being put below west pilots who had less than 2 years with the company or who were not even out of grammar school when those east pilots were hired.
Add to that a large enough number of pilots who thought that they really had nothing left to lose and the result is not surprising at all. While I question whether USAPA has a legal leg to stand on regarding overturning the arbitration, there is a large enough number of pilots from the east that don't have much else to lose by giving it a try that they were able to de-certify the union.
Where was ALPA at fault here??
Really! You seem to hold yourself out as an expert in all things ALPO. All this knowledge coming from person that works at a non-alpo carrier?ALPA has looked at it repeatedly, there are simply no viable alternatives.
You didn't even read what I wrote. I didn't say that they had to give the Easties date of hire. Just a fence to protect their career expectations.
Well...now it would appear y'all have no collective bargaining agreement with your employer, as the previous one was with ALPA....door's wide open for whatever the company wants to do with seniority..
You should get your facts straight before you post.