Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Its about the end game. Fight the battles but never miss sight of the goal. I also submit that if more pilots that were disenfranchised with the current path got engaged, one of a few things would happen. 1) The leadership would get the message and adjust, or 2) The support would be there to make the changes many desire. Until the participation levels go way up, it does not matter if it is ALPA, DPA, IPA, APA, USAPA, SWAPA, etc the results will be the same.
This is an excellent point. It is much too easy to show displeasure on an anonymous forum then it is to actually talk with a rep or go to meetings. Want change, make sure that YOUR reps know that you want it. Wishing it to happen and making it happen are two different things. Get involved, email, text, call your reps - it is your career. And we can all start with filling out the contract survey. It would be a shame for this important tool for the pilots to fall into the apathetic black hole.
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the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done." T. Roosevelt