Originally Posted by
Mostly Harmless
The very short version of this:
The company is moving 10 tails from it's mainline to a new start up just after the pilots unionized. It's clearly an attempt at union busting as the wages offered to the "new" pilots are roughly 50% of the current wages paid.
Cheers
Just to clarify the sequence of events:
1) The company announced it was starting a ULCC. Under the existing non-union employee agreement, pilots for the ULCC would have to have been taken first from the ranks of the combined WJ and WJE (Encore) pilot list.
2) Later that same day, ALPA announced it would seek to certify the WJ pilots.
3) ALPA's position is that only WJ pilots should fly the ULCC planes, at WJ rates (no mention of WJE pilots).