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luvn737s
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With the spiraling collapse of the airline profession as we know it, there exists almost no "have" and "have-not" airlines. All have become "have-not"s. Given this race to the bottom mentality fueled by management opportunism and given tacit approval by the existing bankruptcy laws, will we see a radical shift in ALPA's strategy as a union?
Will ALPA become a strong central union that has little or no local input and who negotiates a boilerplate contract at every airline? All compensation plans will be uniform as will rates. The union will establish the market rates and uniform benefits. Perhaps the RLA will be abandoned and replaced with a union operating under the NLRB and it's rules.
One thing is certain: ALPA cannot maintain any relevance by continuing to permit a race to the bottom and advocating "getting any deal you can". They have abdicated their responsibility for leadership and instead act merely as a clearinghouse for responses to management failures.
Either the members of ALPA and their leadership stick together, or they crumble one block at a time.
Will ALPA become a strong central union that has little or no local input and who negotiates a boilerplate contract at every airline? All compensation plans will be uniform as will rates. The union will establish the market rates and uniform benefits. Perhaps the RLA will be abandoned and replaced with a union operating under the NLRB and it's rules.
One thing is certain: ALPA cannot maintain any relevance by continuing to permit a race to the bottom and advocating "getting any deal you can". They have abdicated their responsibility for leadership and instead act merely as a clearinghouse for responses to management failures.
Either the members of ALPA and their leadership stick together, or they crumble one block at a time.
If you really want the union to stand up, then you shouls strike with UAL and make sure that your management doesn't drag the rest of the industry down. I seem to remember hearing a pilot I knew from UAL tell another pilot from CAL that very thing some 20 years ago on the DEN concourse. Makes sense to me. Stand up for your rights pilots and get the picket signs out. Heck Eastern pilots had the cajons and did it, you should too 
Nothing like the comical chorus of business school rejects who think they have it figured out after an hour on MS Flightsim. ALPA's problem is they have never been strong enough, not that they are too strong. Finally the day is upon us where certain pilot groups that have always made big bucks on the back of ALPA without paying dues (arbitrage...) find themselves as the pay group with the big target on the chest. Maybe now we'll wake up and declare a minimum salary level for all Airline pilots. You accept a job below that level, you're a scab. If you pay be ow that level, every other pilot group in the nation pickets you, union mechanics at out stations refuse to "efficiently' service your equipment, and you go on every unions "blacklist".
