DirkDiggler

I really don't understand why an average Skywest pilot would be against a union whether ALPA, Teamsters or their own. The point of this thread is to find out but I have not seen any real answers as to why. The ALPA 1.9% is pretty small and meaningless for the individual pilot, but as a whole, if the average median pilot salary was lets say $50k x 4200 pilots x 1.9%, that would be nearly $4 million a year the Skywest pilots can put towards programs that are in their collective best interests.

untied

United and Delta alone pay about $100 million per year in union dues (combined). PLUS all the other carriers. SkyWest would have access to all those resources.

Regionals put in very little, but get all the same benefits of pilots paying much more.

It's a pretty good deal.

Blackwing

*** are taught to not question authority, that's the big reason.

Quarryman

And we have a winner!!

DirkDiggler

Didn't the Mesa pilots just get a million dollar grant from the Major Contingency Fund and JetBLue pilots $2.5 million just a few days ago. Things like that come in handy in addition to the big list of things Alpa does for pilots as a whole. But if you're so against them maybe you shouldn't be hired at a unionized major. Just stay at Skywest and enjoy all of the too many to name non-union benefits you receive. Oh? What's that you say? No benefits for being non-union workers, I'm sorry how silly of me.

TheFly

http://static.politico.com/b1/9b/97a...on-lawsuit.pdf

RJDio

I thought we established that already

DirkDiggler

Well you sound like you would fit in great over there. Maybe you should apply.

That case was settled/dismissed on 5/12/17. The issues really fall on the elected LEC/MEC reps. National isn't really involved in the day to day contract negotiations. Lots of shenanigans get played in any organization. I'm sure SAPA is not immune given they literally get paid by management. Kind of hard to go against the people that are actually paying you.

TheFly

Of course there are shenanigans in any organization. However, the cons of ALPA at a regional greatly outweigh the pros.

450knotOffice

Your one-liners are comically inept. Honestly, why DO you troll the Skywest boards, anyway? For years you've trolled the Skywest baord with literally ZERO to say that might be construed as even remotely positive in nature. Your post history is 100% composed of bombs and one overused MEME - all 808 posts to this point.

I'm not, and never have been, a Skywest employee, yet I have quite a few friends who are (or have been), which is why I've seen your stupid posts and even more stupid single over-used MEME over the past few years (see below). All want to move on, yet try to enjoy or endure their time there as much as they possibly can. YOU, however, want to come in with your one or two sentence drive-by's and consider yourself SO informed and worldly, culminating in your one and only comically and predictably over-used MEME.

Your thought process: "I'm so enlightened - as opposed to these SKYWEST pilot idiots - that all I have to do is type one or two vague, yet passively aggressive, questions, and I win, because they're idiot pilots, and I'm, well...me - Mr. Mercyful Fate".

If you're NOT somehow involved with Skywest, then WHY do you ONLY post in their threads? Why not ALL or MOST of the other airline threads?

There was a guy in this airline forum we call APC who was admired and hated all at once until he was banned (Sadly, actually. He was oddly entertaining). He was a former Eagle - and now AA - pilot who could take a half a page arguing his point(s) eloquently. He did not hesitate to take on anyone, yet he argued with a purpose. That was Eaglefly.

YOU, on the other hand, simply come in, drop broad based, vague questions/accusations, then fail to eloquently address your critics. You're an internet coward, especially compared to Eaglefly, who'd own you every day and all day. He was smart, something you've NOT demonstrated.

Let me leave you with this, since I know you'll respond with it. Pretty much, this is how we all consider you:


By the way, im should be spelled I'm. I (comma) M.