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This week, the campaign to secure ALPA representation
for SkyWest pilots officially kicked off with the
distribution of Authorization for Representation
Election cards. This is the latest step forward in the
first initiative in ALPA's Strategic Organizing Campaign
authorized by the Executive Board in June. Several
months ago, a group of SkyWest pilots formed the SkyWest
Pilots ALPA Organizing Committee to work with ALPA on
this effort. The Organizing Committee is urging all
SkyWest pilots to join them in this campaign to secure
union representation and, ultimately, a collective
bargaining agreement. To do so will be a "critically
important opportunity to improve our careers and our
airline," the Organizing Committee wrote in a
letter to
all SkyWest pilots.
ALPA has made securing representation for SkyWest
pilots a top priority for the Association and the
profession, and the Association has committed
significant financial and staff resources to this
initiative.
"The time has come," says ALPA's president, Capt.
Duane Woerth, "for the SkyWest pilots to unite for a
better future--a future with guaranteed rights and
benefits through an enforceable contract; a future with
increased economic security and the ability to speak
with one voice; a future with union representation; a
future with ALPA." (read
the letter from Capt. Woerth)
The Organizing Committee identified specific goals
regarding what pilots want from their careers at SkyWest
and how best to achieve those goals. It concluded that,
"ALPA is the only association that serves only airline
pilots, and we are convinced that ALPA offers us the
superb combination of unmatched resources, the clout of
a large international union, and the local autonomy that
will allow us to create a powerful and representative
union of our pilot group at our airline."
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