A group of 400 Midwest pilots belonging to the Air Line Pilots Association and led by the Midwest Airlines Master Executive Council has been organizing protests and calling for dissatisfied customers to write Midwest CEO Timothy E. Hoeksema through its website, DontOutsourceMidwest.com.
Last Wednesday, pilots drew the picket lines at Milwaukee-area businesses like Miller Coors and US Bank, both of whom are major customers of Midwest.
This isn't a question of unionizing--the Republic pilots are Teamsters members, and neither side has attacked the other for competing over the jobs--but rather an alleged violation of the union agreement between the pilots and the airline.
Meanwhile a Midwest spokesperson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the laid off flight crews will be rehired once they can be retrained to use the newly under-the-banner Embraer 170 planes; that process could take up to a year.
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· Midwest Airlines' Pilots Picketing Wednesday [620 WTMJ]
· Midwest Airlines Pilots Hold Rally... Why? [Fraud Files Blog]
· Midwest Airlines workers Protest Leasing Plan [MJS]
· Midwest Death Watch coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo from a September rally: MJS]
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