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10-16-2012, 03:17 PM

#106

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Quote:

Originally Posted by horrido27

It will never "go" until we, as pilots.. are willing to do what it takes. That means a strike. Unauthorized and Illegal.

Until we, as a Union and Pilot Group say- "Enough is ****ing Enough".. nothing will change.

Even under a full Democratic Administration/Government.. it's gonna take ACTION from us to change the RLA.

Motch

PS> If you look at the history of our Nation and People... it has taken illegal movement to make changes in our country.

ALPA was fairly successful in making the airline pilot profession an upper tier profession both in compensation and working conditions prior to the mid 1970's. This was possible because the government regulated the industry and more importantly, the Civil Aeronautics Board acted to insure a degree of equality, equal pay for equal work, in the airline industry. Then a snake slithered into the industry via a rather innocuous freight company, Zantop, and the seeds of destruction of the profession were planted. With the help of Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy the industry was deregulated in 1978. Gone was the CAB but the RLA remained with its primary focus on preventing disruptions to the nation’s transportation system caused by labor actions as a result of failed contract negotiations. Today if you ask ALPA officials what they are doing to amend or abolish the RLA they will tell you that the subject of the RLA is “not even on our radar." Every ALPA member should rise up and insist that ALPA gets a backbone and lead the fight directly against the government and the RLA. And the snake…

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