C3 buys Royal
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Not just a rumour - it's on the C3 website: http://micro.newswire.ca/releases/Ja...1.html/65020-0
Canada 3000 L1011s and 737s, or more business for Toulouse?
Canada 3000 L1011s and 737s, or more business for Toulouse?
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If ALPA behaves like unions in other industries then the pilots at Royal should brace for a right "Royal" shafting. A friend of mine worked for a firm for 5 years union-free, the shop he was in got consolidated into another one in the same company that was unionized. Result: he got union scale (lower than his previous wage), was forced to cough up an "initiation fee" of one week's pay and dues of half a day's pay every month. Six months later he got bumped out of his job by the union local VP's nephew.
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Not far off the mark, Waloo. The problem is that Canadian unions don't have to represent the interests of their members because the law requires all employees in a union shop to pay dues even if they don't want to be members. Predictably, when this law came into effect the union bosses became even less accountable than politicians. As for the outfit my friend worked for, they finally gave up and moved the whole operation to South Carolina, which is a "right to work" state. Workers there get paid more but the company has fewer headaches and bigger profits.
