Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Sometimes ALPA's harshest critics pay ALPA the most sincere compliments.
ALPA fought age 65, unlike the independents. When it was apparent age 65 was going to be passed despite ALPA's objections, then ALPA fought to limit the harm by engaging and preventing post retired pilots from returning.
That just further highlights the problems of ALPA and whether there are any core convictions there anymore. If you really feel strongly, you NEVER stop objecting. You never go along. And you way overplay ALPA's role in keeping the already retired pilots from coming back. The main objection to that were airline managements who didn't want to spend the money on retraining old pilots who'd been out of the cockpit too long.
There's a soul problem at ALPA Bar. Whether it's the selling of one man's job to another for money, or what ALPA did to the TWA pilots, there is a huge core conviction problem at ALPA. Maybe it's inevitable when an organization gets that huge and bureaucracy driven...but that's where we are with today's ALPA.
Carl