Posted on 09/01/2021 6:08:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Southwest pilots’ union sued the carrier this week, alleging the airline violated federal labor laws by altering work rules during the pandemic travel slump without negotiating the changes.
Those included changes to work conditions and pilot pay rules and rates, such as an “emergency” time-off program, according to the lawsuit, which the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association filed in federal court in Dallas on Monday.
Southwest denied the allegations that its changed required negotiation with the union.
The lawsuit comes as tensions between Southwest’s workers and management are on the rise.
Southwest pilots’ labor union this month said it was considering pickets at airports over Thanksgiving and Christmas to protest work conditions.
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Perhaps the airlines would run efficiently, and normally, if their management wasn’t so possessed with being WOKE.
I had just read somewhere the other day that Southwest announced it was relaxing it's schedule and workloads. Not enough for the union? You realize a union exists only to claim it is doing great things for it's members. Therefore it has to keep pushing and pushing the company beyond all reasonable limits - otherwise if the union couldn't say "see what we got for you?" members might start to wonder why they need a union... Problem is, eventually they always push too far, too hard, and things break. Sometimes permanently. Sorry, there's that anti-union bias showing through again. I'm sure in some places and some times they are a good thing. But my experience is 100% the opposite.
In the old days unions helped to get relatively safe working conditions for their members. But my observations agrees with you in that, overall, unions are a drain.
They thrive in industries where there’s no competition. Think GM before Toyotas arrived.
Southwest is the airline bringing in the Afghan refugees.
A youtube channel called Monkey Werx is documenting it.
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