Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
If I was new and invited...I would go. My decision was made a long time ago but id certainly enjoy a free dinner out with the wife.
I have nothing against our management team and wouldn't mind being at a dinner table together. Its nothing personal and as men, most of them are decent people. At the end of the day its their job to look after an airline and THEIR career and its my job to look after mine. They have proven incapable of doing what I feel are the right things for us so we will take it from here.
My wife and I were invited and offered a hotel room. I was considering going for the same reason - I wouldn't mind a night on the town with the wife.
It was my mild-mannered, demure wife who squashed it. In fact, she nearly exploded. She said for me to tell the CP this:
Why are you willing to offer me a hotel room now when you couldn't manage to find $50 to do so during an IROP, after I busted my butt all day to engage frustrated passengers at four airports - helping to turn many of them from furious to return customers (with no LSC personnel in sight at JFK, btw) - volunteered to extend the last day of a 4-day to 16 hours, and flew to <10 minutes of that limit, asking ONLY that I get a hotel room back at base when I landed so that I didn't have to drive several hours home, in a snowstorm, exhausted?
As a DAL ALPA rep said at the BOS meet and greet last night, lots of union votes are won at the kitchen table. If my wife could vote in this election, she'd turn in as many yes votes as she could, Ohio-style.
Ladies and Gents, it's time for ALPA!