I know I am in for a s storm but I will try to get some info anyway. 
First is the union worth it for air methods? I know you can't make everyone happy but overall, how is it?

Secondly, GMR is now huge with all the smaller companies under it. Is it worth ALL of us, mtc,reach, air evac, the fixed wing pilots to get better pay and better benifits. Could we join reach in there CBA?

spit balling

Union. Their expertise is in office professionals. They know nothing of pilots, aviation, or anything aviation related. Now if you could organize with a union like ALPA, you might have something that you would be satisfied with.

I contacted them and asked if they represented rotor wing. They say nope. 
great minds think a like

it doesn't matter if they know anything about aviation. Business is business for the most part. Not all Teamsters drive a truck. In case you haven't noticed, here are no unions that only represent helicopter pilots. The ALPA would be awesome but why would they bother with a bunch of nitwit helicopter pilots.

For a union, to be sure. Your satisfaction with such a union would be least than satisfactory. Some might even say flagrant.

Crawl back into your hole

Retired now and was able to have a great career without a union.  I just can't see the logic in having another level of supervision in my work and have to pay for it.  

at all. what?

like some that don't know the meaning of the word flagrant lol

So far I have enjoyed the Union. While the rest of airmethods lost their vacation and 401k benefits ours remained. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos fear unions and there is a reason for that. 

So Med Trans, PHI, Metro... all just hosed their pilots in the last two years...

Metro pay raise a year 4%.... AMC 3.2%....

Metro safety bonus..... AMC None...or wait Bravo Points...

Give me a break with the Union poo.... The Union is only good for New Hires, and people who don't like to work.  Good employee that are loyal to a company get hosed by the Union.

If you have been at AMC for more that 10 years straight, you have been hosed by the Union.

Pilots that are hired now get paid almost the same as a 10 year pilot due to the fact those 10 year pilots worked through the years there was no contract.  Because the Union did not get retro pay or bring up the pay scale for those pilots we have fallen off.

Truth!

Metro 4% with the safety bonus, 3% without, no additional stipends or bonuses.

AMC 3.25% no safety bonus, up to $15,000 bonuses.

Metro NO geo-mods or ACCRA.

AMC up to 160% ACCRA

Metro NO workover pay for training and travel.

AMC minimum of 8 hours workover for training and travel.

Metro 5 days vacation ALL levels.

AMC 2 weeks vacation.

Metro 401k no match.

AMC 401k best match in industry.

Metro forced workover and NO base rights which means you can be forced to work anywhere, anytime.

AMC  NO forced workover and can not be forced to work anywhere but YOUR base.

Metro went over 3 years with NO raise And NO back pay.

AMC went 14 months with NO raise but got FULL back pay.

Just to name a few....

Where do you get a 15K bonus from AMC... not a stipends that can go away, and not sign on bonus.

We have maybe 4 bases out of 350 that get 160% and that's not enough for those locations.

You must be new.  During the last three contracts with AMC we have gone multiple years with out a contract.

You did not answer the question brought up about pay.

It is truth that if you have been at AMC for more than 10 years you have been hosed.

We went almost 2-3 years without a contract in 2014, and almost a 1 and hlaf in 2009.

We should try and make any company you work for "a destination company like SouthWest."  No shortage of pilot there, and lately proving pilots can ban together for a common good.

If the union was so bad then all the other non-union companies would be hands down a better place to work, but they are not.  AMC union sets the standards and everyone else follows.  

It would be way better if all companies were unionized.  But alas, they just follow AMC.

By the way, the union was actually the best thing that ever happened to AMC.

Yah setting a low standard, so other comapnies choose to set a low standard.

You got it.

Don't look at AMC, they just eternally doomed their pilots to a broken pay scale with that last CBA.  Going to be mass exodus if it doesn't change