Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Gotta love how the ALPA apologists like Johnso29 here view the world. ALPA loses a jury trial of a Duty to Fairly Represent lawsuit. Judge here's all motions from ALPA to throw out verdict, etc., and he DENIES them all. But does an ALPA apologist think for even a moment to do the right thing when shown to be guilty in a court of law? Not a chance. You talk about how you've got the deeper pockets and how you'll drag this out for 10+ years.
ALPA doesn't understand that they keep getting themselves into these debacles by their failure of just plain doing the right thing. No matter how much they justified in their own minds how cool it would be to get the pilots of American Airlines to return to ALPA, you just can't do it by stabbing the pilots you currently represent (TWA pilots) in the back. Thus, ALPA still struggles with something most of us should learn in kindergarten...DO THE RIGHT THING.
Carl
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests - we did.
"But you can't hold a whole "union "responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole "union" system? And if the whole "union" system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!"