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ALPA is a joke
They'll probably say they can't afford it, what with executive expenses going up these days.Wow.....why doesn't ALPA do this? Two full pages too!
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In a word, yes. Because it has historically been those flight instructors lining up to take your job in a heartbeat if you say no to the currently offered compensation, that gives management the upper hand in negotiations.Organizing Flight Instructors and fast food workers?
So after the CFI's organize, if a guy does Part 61 instructing in his airplane, will he be branded a Scab?In a word, yes. Because it has historically been those flight instructors lining up to take your job in a heartbeat if you say no to the currently offered compensation, that gives management the upper hand in negotiations.
Persuade those flight instructors that it wouldn't be in their best long term interest to take a job at LowBallJets, and suddenly you have some negotiating power in your current negotiations.
It's the dirty little secret of unionization, but unions exist to artificially inflate wages beyond what the free market would normally command, by creating a monopoly on labor. Bringing the next group of potential pilots into this monopoly is what unions should be focusing on, if the leadership understood why they have succeeded in the past.
[As an aside, unions used to succeed by creating a monopoly on labor, i.e. convincing new pilots not to be ostracized by the word "scab." However, they sold out this strategy by allowing management to create a "B" scale group of pilots--the entire regional pilot group. New guys are now allowed to low-ball the current workers, because the legacy airline pilots are still insulated from the free market. New pilots buy into this because it is a ponzi scheme--"I have artificially low compensation now in exchange for artificially high compensation later." But this situation is starting to unravel, because most guys have figured out that ponzi schemes are hard to win at. Six-or-seven-year FO's still on reserve, anyone?]