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Originally Posted by Velocipede  And that's the million dollar question. If ALPA was a REAL union you'd have:
1. One comphrehensive pay scale and set of work rules for every unionized airline pilot. |
ALPA has studied this idea numerous times, and each committee always comes to the same conclusion: a single pay scale and set of work rules is both completely unworkable and undesirable. There are far too many variables in the operations of each individual airline to be able to assign a single set of workrules, and ALPA's ability to advance wages and work rules is directly tied to the ability to "jack up the house one corner at a time." Captain Behnke set up ALPA the way it is for this specific reason.
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2. A national seniority list
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You'll never get the majority of pilots to go along with it. Captain Woerth was in favor of this concept, but saw the reality that this would never be possible. The ship sailed for this concept 76 years ago when ALPA was founded. It's impossible to change it now.
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the AAA MEC stuck doggedly to their Date of Hire position even though ALPA National advised them to modify their stance.
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Small correction: ALPA National never advised the AAA MEC to change their stance on the integration. ALPA maintains a strict policy of neutrality during seniority integrations. It's very likely that the attorney for the AAA MEC advised them to change their stance, but that attorney was not an ALPA lawyer and was selected solely by the AAA MEC.