College of Professional Pilots of Canada

[dustyroads]

Does anyone have any opinions on the college? Are the benefits being a member worth the membership fee?

[Dias]

Eventually we are going to have to get together to protect ourselves from government and corporate bullying. The pilot labour unions have been neutered so there is a vacuum to be filled by whatever organization can help us protect our careers. If we have lost the right to strike (we have) than lobbying is the next best thing.

[goldeneagle]

If we have lost the right to strike (we have) than lobbying is the next best thing.

Except you haven't lost the right to strike, but recent history shows that the groups have lost (or never had) the will to strike.

[Meatservo]

I think what they are trying to do is laudable. I don’t know if their goals are realistic, given that there are already Unions, and there is the Honourable Guild of Air Pilots (formerly the Honourable Guild of Air Navigators, but considering most pilots trained after the year 2000 can’t actually navigate, I guess they needed to draw a distinction, but I digress) I’m not sure what they think they are doing. On the one hand there are pilots who see the word “College” and it gets their backs up because they’re too dumb to understand that a college (professional association) is not the same as a college (school that makes you learn stuff). On the other hand there are guys who wonder what professional standards the college espouses and how that fits with their personal views on what constitutes a “professional”..erm, profession?

I don’t know. I pay my membership every year hoping something good will come of it. Like I say, I think what they are trying to do is laudable.

[tsgarp]

I think what they are trying to do is laudable. I don’t know if their goals are realistic, given that there are already Unions, and there is the Honourable Guild of Air Pilots (formerly the Honourable Guild of Air Navigators, but considering most pilots trained after the year 2000 can’t actually navigate, I guess they needed to draw a distinction, but I digress) I’m not sure what they think they are doing. On the one hand there are pilots who see the word “College” and it gets their backs up because they’re too dumb to understand that a college (professional association) is not the same as a college (school that makes you learn stuff). On the other hand there are guys who wonder what professional standards the college espouses and how that fits with their personal views on what constitutes a “professional”..erm, profession?

I don’t know. I pay my membership every year hoping something good will come of it. Like I say, I think what they are trying to do is laudable.

This is on point. In a nutshell, the College really doesn’t have a clear and unique aim. Unions represent pilots’ interests on the labour front and Transport Canada regulates professional standards. The College amounts to redundant efforts and costs on both fronts.

[newlygrounded]

If we have lost the right to strike (we have) than lobbying is the next best thing.

Except you haven't lost the right to strike, but recent history shows that the groups have lost (or never had) the will to strike.

Despite having the most pro labor government in over 20 years, it seems almost every major union that decided to strike was forced back to arbitration.