Originally Posted by cactiboss

Gary Hummel and Steve Bradford support DATE OF HIRE. It is part of the opposition “big lie” to say otherwise.

-Stephen Bradford

I am a strong believer in USAPA, our Constitution and Bylaws including seniority based on Date of Hire...

-Joe Stein

I want a contract and I want to work to achieve one that solidifies Date of Hire...
-Courney Borman


Make No mistake, USAPA continues to maintain that the Nicolau Award is not binding and that seniority is an issue that must be resolved in negotiations subject to membership ratification. Anything that anyone tells you to the contrary is categorically untrue.
-Bill McKee


We are rapidly approaching the four year anniversary of USAPA’s reign of power. Since that time, we’ve been parked by the NMB, slapped with a permanent federal injunction for an illegal job action, and lost a grievance that could have restored our wages. In that same time, we lost a DFR trial, sued our west colleagues for alleged RICO crimes, and lined the pockets of a New York law firm with millions of our hard earned dollars.

Now the same exact people who got us into this unbelievable mess are running for office basing their entire campaigns on their degree of support for....you guessed it - date of hire! Instead of offering fresh ideas and blueprints for the future, they are buying hundreds of dollars worth of bandwidth and spamming our emails swearing allegiance to the unobtainable quest of date of hire.

What we can guarantee you is that if you vote for any of these retreads, you will be casting your vote in favor of nothing. That’s right, not one of them has given us any reason to expect anything more than nothing. After all, almost every single one of them has had their chance to produce positive results for our group and instead they chose - nothing.

For the past four years the only thing 1.95% of our salaries has gotten us is a soap opera unworthy of day time cable television. As we continue to labor for salaries akin to turbo prop pilots, our hard earned dollars are funding flight pay loss leaches completely consumed by office dalliances, leaked emails, office space, illegal job actions, and politics of personal destruction.

As you cast your final vote, we hope you realize that checkmarks next to names such as Stein, Borman, Bradford, Hummel, and McKee are completely interchangeable. These names from the past have absolutely nothing positive to offer our combined pilot group.

It’s up to us to prevent a repeat of the last four years. Your vote can and will determine the remainder of your career.

Think about it.