Skywest pilots and ALPA
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Skywest pilots and ALPA
I see where ALPA is attempting to organize the Skywest pilots. I hope a few of them see this because they may want to reconsider joining ALPA. As a pilot for a small cargo airline represented by them, I cannot be more unhappy. I would never vote for them and I will never happily take employment at a carrier represented by them. What do the Skywest pilots think they will gain??? ALPA will take their money and then control them, shoving whatever ALPA wants down their throat. When it comes time for Skywest to confront one of their partner airlines about equipment rights, or mergers, it's the little guy who will get the shaft. I saw where Mr. Prater had organized a phone bank to call all the Skywest pilots in some 24 hour period. Great, now ALPA is telemarketing!!! And isn't that just so fitting. I tired to get on your web site Skywest, but you have no way to contact you. Beware!
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I worked in California in the early 80's for a small..now large regional airline..many many times we contacted ALPO to organize us due to working and other conditions...they weren't interested even the slightest bit..then when Continental struck in 1983, and more than 30% of our pilots or more crossed the line and went to work, it was a wake-up call for ALPO, as they realized lowly "commuter pilots" could do a lot of damage...so while ALPO (A) is keen to collect dues from regional pilots, and label them as "union brothers", it always seems their attempts to support them in times of trouble is at best half-assed...they just dont generate the dues revenue that a major airline does..and face it...ALPO is a business...and the little guys lose...oddly enough all my colleagues who scabbed at that time are now dues-paying ALPO members...fancy that!!!....and no I haven't made any typo's here ALPO is a brand of dog food in the USA...hence ALPO...the dog-food union...a term coined by a group of original Frontier pilots who lost out when the UAL MEC shot down their buyout to attempt to prevent the formation of "b" scale wages....brotherly love in action
