Tell you what, when you reach the 10 year merger mark we'll talk.
Whether you admit it or not, the old adage Divide and Conquer works. It's one thing to divide the pawns, but when you separate the King and Queen, check mate is just around the corner. If USAPA were to strike, would there be members who cross the picket line?
One has to wonder when you have workers that have given away so much, with the encouragement of their Unions, why would you expect that they would honor a picket line and help someone else fight?
The Unions in this industry have done such a good job taking the fight out of the workers by telling them to agree to the unacceptable why would they think they could get them to honor another unions pickets when they wont fight for themselves? USAIRWAYS, like AA, pays less than Non-union Jet Blue, Delta and Fed Ex. What value do these members get from their dues when better deals are available without a union?
I think Signals makes a good point, if the union can only bring back inferior deals why keep them? USAIR keeps AA company at the bottom of the industry. $600 a year for what?
Right now Unions are blaming everything on the BK process, Ok, what are they doing about it? What are airline unions doing about the fact that AIRLINE Union workers are the only people in this country that are forced to continue to provide services to a private enterprise under terms they never agreed to? rail workers are protected under 1167, all other workers fall under the NLRA where they can strike if they abrogate, all other creditors can withdraw their services or products. Only airline Unions are prohibited from withdrawing what they provide absent an agreement. So what are Unions doing to stop USAIR from riding out the Sect 6 process, essentially forcing a pay freeze, and then filing for BK again? If the AFA does strike, what's stopping USAIR from filing BK to stop the strike? Whats stopping the whole industry from doing the same? Nothing, and we should expect more than that from our unions.
After Obama was elected in 2008 Unions in this industry were more concerned about making it easier to get into a union than making membership more advantageous for members. They spent all their political capital to change the rules for getting a union, despite the fact that under the preexisting rules this was already the most heavily unionised industry out there. In the meantime the Non-union workers they hoped to organize were better compensated than their unionized peers.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Mark Richard, a "Union" lawyer actually mocked me for using such quotes, of course he was paid to make sure the deal passes. Unfortunately for me I guess, I actually believe in such things. An ethical Lawyer would cite how these rules violate everything the law is supposed to stand for in this country.
How can a law be considered "just" when it only applies to us with no regard to our rights? It wasnt written this way, its the way indiviual judges have spun it that has made it what its become, and our Unions stay silent.
