You said it! It will be tough to say "no", but I do have to look at myself in the mirror each morning!
The mirror would be hell if I were wearing an ALPA pin on my lapel again.
ALPA’s Dirty Little Secret.
It is inconceivable that 1500 ALPA mainline pilots decline recall to mainline “ALPA†jobs. They are afraid of getting stuck on the 190, and well they should be.
But the real dirty secret is that a pilot will be required to resign while he is passing on a 190, in violation of the contract.
ALPA felt bad about allowing 190 rates, but felt better by demanding that we can “forever bypass†a recall to the 190.
In theory then, we could keep passing on the 190 (while the company would hire off the street) and we would remain on the list, because we had passed to someone junior.
BUT… BUT now that the company is handling the recall to 190 separate than the recall to the Group 2 aircraft, we cannot exercise our right to bypass a plane to someone junior, and remain on the list.
They will force us to come back to group 2 or resign, while we pass to someone junior on the 190.
I find it hard to believe that ALPA is really as incompetent as it has been for the last 20 years, without actually trying to be (indeed, being paid to be).
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