Bear69,
Market forces have absolutely nothing to do with the prices paid to Airline Employee: AMTs', Pilots', F/As', or Rampers, within the Airline Industry.
Then what determines pay for those work groups? Unions? Then why did pay decline in those heavily-unionized crafts over the past several years?
If labor market forces have nothing to do with wages, then if no one was applying for these jobs, and there were vacancies everywhere, and flights were cancelling because airlinrs simply can't find workers for those positions, wages wouldn't go up for those positions? If that is what you are saying, I completely disagree.
The RLA controls and dictates the actions of EVERY PLAYER within the Industry.
Alot, yes. "Every single," no.
You CANNOT initiate an airline without US GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL.
And . . . ? Thanks for stating the obvious, but what does that have to do with the discussion? Government regulates a lot of industries.
You CANNOT fly every frequency AND destination without US GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL.
Really? So if AA wanted to start flying from, say, MCI to SEA tomorrow, it would need government approval? I think you forgot about this little thing called "deregulation" that happened nearly 30 years ago now.
Sure you can't fly EVERYwhere whenever you want to without government approval, but domestically, you can fly
just about everywhere whenever you want to without government approval.
But again I am missing what that has to do with the discussion about AMT compensation?
You CANNOT represent any AIRLINE EMPLOYEE without US GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL.
If you mean you need to have a governmet-supervised election, OK, your statement is sort of correct. But again, so? What is the point you are trying to make?
You CANNOT DECERTIFY any AIRLINE UNION without US GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL.
See above. (And please make your point already!)
You CANNOT ENGAGE IN SELF HELP, a strike, without US GOVERNMETAL APPROVAL.
Sure you can. If things are SOOOOOO bad for airline employees (and reading this wailing wall, it seems that they are), just don't go to work! If every front-line employee takes a day off, what are they going to do? They can't fire all of you.
You CAN ABROGATE EMPLOYEE (UNION) CONTRACTS without official US GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL:
Well, you either need government (court) approval or union approval, right?
You state that an employee engaging in self-help; in the face of the facts above, is engaging in economic terrorism
OK, now I'm really confused. Where did I say anything like that? Do you have me cinfused with another poster?
I have always been clear that if you feel you are treated so badly by management and feel you have no other options, exercise your collective power and do what you need to do. I have also said that that is not always the wisest choice, and you may have to face some unpleasant consequences of your actions, but I have never likened it to terrorism. To the contrary, my message has been, "Stop the endless whining and do what you have to do already!"