Check out what america west pilots accepted for 25 years. Bottom wages. US Airways pilots had done this for a year before the MERGER, then the america west pilots put on a halo. Notice the Southwest pilots wages, they accepted less and have recently raped, er exuse the spelling, reaped the rewards of undercutting. Please note the Aloha Airline pilots wages vs the Hawaiian pilots . The Aloha pilots were rewarded by alpa with resume class, the Hawaiian pilots kept their jobs, alpa reward for undercutting.
I have pointed out alpa's main problem. john prater, president of alpa, worked with a bunch of scabs at continental, he was rewarded with wages and promotion. Scabs win with alpa, the problem is they sleep well at night.
Pillots undercutting wages for years, then showing displeasure when others do the same, click here.
Same argument, over and over and over.
AWA's first contract was just that, the first contract negotiated after ALPA organization. It was also negotiated during bankruptcy.
So let's compare an apple to an apple. Why don't you extoll on the advances the AAA pilot group made during your negotiations while in chapter 11?
With respect to EastUS, a heavy sigh right back at ya.
Your side keeps insinuating that the furloughed east pilots made a sacrifice to keep AAA in business. They no more made sacrifices then they "earned" seniority. Seniority is accrued not earned and a sacrifice is by definition a voluntary offering. When a pilot is involuntarily furloughed he has not made a sacrifice.
It boils down the the east wanting the west pilots to pay the price for all of the east's "sacrifices." The pay, retirement and work rule give backs may, or may not, have been necessary, but these were laid on the alter by the east pilots and the west pilots are not going to pay punitive damages to make the east pilots whole.
Though you are one of the few to say you don't want any west pilot displaced there are others who feel quite differently. Autofixer and Oldie, to name two off the top of my head, feel that it would be okay for an east furloughee and a west captain to exchange places because "you were in junior high when he was at USAir." Well we are not interested in this concept of "fairness."
DOH is a staple because conditions and restrictions are always temporary and over time one's position will gradually be determined by their system seniority.
USAPA has codified DOH as part of their bylaws. I don't think you will ever see us holding hands with you while you go to management to gain for yourselves at our expense.
By the way I have yet to refer to the east as scabs. However, the definition of a scab is one who is willing to step in and take another's job. By that definition USAPA is a scab organization. Their reason de et-re is to impose a DOH list, to provide "furlough protection" to the east pilots. If you break the code "furlough protection" decodes as; Furlough the west pukes but keep the east pilots employed because the east pilots have already "sacrificed" enough for the good of USAirways.
We would have to be insane to participate in our own mugging.
