Skywest Questions

Ayork62493 said:
Agreed, the union bashing here is disgusting and I’m tired of riding on the coat tails of union progression for the career. My lanyard and bag tags have actually worked well here so far as far as opening the captain’s minds up towards ALPA
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Is it ok if I send you a PM? I would like to help the "movement". I have lost all faith in SAPA.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Two union drives at Skywest from what I can remember. I worked the second one. Both were massive failures. i sure hope the next one ends better. You guys need a union desperately.
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I'd heard that the voting laws had changed and under the new ones the last drive would have passed, but I don't really have a concrete source for that.
 
JordanD said:
I'd heard that the voting laws had changed and under the new ones the last drive would have passed, but I don't really have a concrete source for that.
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Not true. We tried to get those regulations changed, but never accomplished it. Too much Republican opposition, even during the Obama years.
 
bimmerphile said:
Can someone smarter than me please explain to me how this voting thing works at a non union carrier? All I can imagine is a 100% No vote and management just implementing it anyway. Do you genuinely have any recourse?
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The pilot group voted no on the first TA in 2015. The company turned around with a new package a week later that was better and the group voted yes.
 
Zondaracer said:
The pilot group voted no on the first TA in 2015. The company turned around with a new package a week later that was better and the group voted yes.
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I was told that package was the same amount of money, just shifted around? Is that true?
 
jtrain609 said:
VOTE ALPA. ONE LIST.
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The crux of the matter is that word has circulated how pay at SkyWest is much less than that of its competitors, and quality of life is horrendous. Our work rules are subpar compared to other ALPA regionals. If a new-hire comes to SkyWest, he will make less and possibly have to endure a transcontinental commute. There are less people showing up to interview and many more no-shows for class than in the past (my friend is a recruiter and my direct source for this or rather was given that he foresees the downwards trending slide of SkyWest and bailed to Spirit this week). On top of that, pilots already on property are bailing in droves to legacies and LCCs. For the first time in however long I've been here, +90 people are leaving every month, even for other regionals! So it boils down to this: the company would not be offering potential $30k sign-on bonuses unless they are desperate.

If we vote yes to this TA, we will be giving management what it needs to recruit enough new-hires to fill classes. There will be no incentive for management to raise pay for pilots on property nor revisit QOL issues. Never in decades has the SkyWest pilot group had so much leverage against management! We must vote this TA down and send a resounding message that we ought to be compensated with a market rate payscale.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
Step 1: stop calling it a TA; TAs are for real contracts that involve real bargaining

Step 2: recognize that management can do whatever the hell they want regardless of how you vote (which is the whole problem)

Step 3: vote ALPA
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Tried step 1 & 2....people come back to me that I haven't been at Skywest long enough to understand.....

o_O
 
Getting a union on property will be tough. Too many against it, whether they be for the TA or not. @ATN_Pilot Yes true, it's not a TA, I don't even know what to call it. Mock TA?
 
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