JetBlue's Union Crisis

ATR ^ | 2011-09-06 | Marshall Bornemann

[92nina]

...ALPA’s rejection by private workers in ‘08 necessitated a game-changer, one that would finally allow the union to “organize” JetBlue employees. In 2010, the National Mediation board would go even further in catapulting big labor’s policy agenda. The International Association of Machinists, along with the NMB (not surprisingly), displayed its guns in a successful attempt to change certain rules that’d governed union election rules for 75 years. Now, only a majority of voting members are required to certify a union, not the long-accepted majority of members in a workforce. This rule change is especially problematic because it is nearly impossible for workers to decertify their union under NMB rules. Luckily House Republicans have taken steps to remedy this federal overreach. Overturning NMB’s new provision, Title XI within the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011 is vital to ensuring fairness between union and non-union workers. Workers within the private sector, most likely, would be more willing to take into consideration joining a union if such unfair policies weren’t forced on them (policies that will come to mirror those of the NLRB). In sort, unions – as usual – sought higher ground through stealthy provisions. Let’s let this be an example as to how far the government, as well as the ever-growing reach of the union, now systemized into a machine, is willing to go just so those willing to work hard can be given a bad image. For the time being, we can rest assured knowing that JetBlue’s workers “direct relationship with the company” remains intact.

Read more: http://www.atr.org/jetblues-union-crisis-a6427#ixzz1XBgyinrE

[92nina]

"In another failed attempt by the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) to drag Jet-Blue into a deal that would ultimately weaken the company’s employee-employer relationship..."

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[USNBandit]

When has ALPA ever helped a situation. I really don't see where my friends have ever benefitted from being ALPA members. All these airlines would be better off with their own pilot associations.

That isn't to say that pilots can't shoot themselves in the foot, when given the chance.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

I have direct experience with ALPA,they are of limited value on their best day. They do a very poor job of taking care of their members.