Originally Posted by
dckozak
You know your union has repeatedly tried to talk to "the other party" about positions near and dear to us during presidential elections. ALPA is keenly aware of the political disposition of the average airline pilot. Past candidates for president (from one of the major parties) have either been evasive or outright fail to answer simple questions that relate to
our profession.
Yeah I remember that survey. Do you? Not one question on taxes. Whole lot of questions on teachers union issues. Most likely a bunch of questions on health care, which of course we are now afraid of. I can frame a survey that would make Barry look like a pilot hating management tool if I wanted to.
As apposed to, say, lobbyists who's job is to influence for whats best for all the people.
In a perfect world lobbyists would spend their money not mine. But thanks to our big government Alpapac recipients, lobbyists get to fight over how much of my money they spend. If it wasn't for big government we wouldn't have lobbyists.
Looking at my posts I am more militant then most of you big spending "labor" fanatics. My biggest disappointment with ALPA was when they rolled over and allowed FDX to implement the FOX system unilaterally taking away at least $200 from each commuters bank with accepted fares and ground transportation cancellations. Not only did they not fix it they actively discouraged grievances.