Originally Posted by
FreightDawgyDog
"He said that if he gets recalled because he did the right thing for those on our seniority list than he can live with that."
If he is recalled it would not be because he thinks he did the right thing by a small percentage of our pilots. It will be because he refuses to allow the members to have a say on huge issues effecting their careers and quality of life. Putting emotion aside, his refusal to allow us a say as dues paying members is the real issue here. Wonder what the next edict will be that DW gives us no say on? Democracy obviously has no place in his rule, especially when he knows he will lose. That's hardly heroic in my book.
I agree with you 100% Dog.
I think he was flaunting his position a little bit and doesn't really understand the animosity and discontent that he has caused.
Funny how he can take a stand for doing the "right" thing on this little side issue while completely caving on doing the "right" thing on the big picture thing, which is the age change to begin with.
If ALPA agrees that it is discrimination to have ICAO pilots over 60 flying into the US then ALPA and ALPA PAC should have been raising the roof over on the hill to prevent that from ever occurring. That would have been the "right" thing.
ALPA has proven that it is ineffective in protecting the interests of the majority of its members and I am afraid that it will be the death toll of ALPA national.
FJ
And for the dense ones like FH, I am not advocating quitting the union, and I have stated several times that I felt that the age change would occur (or not occur) regardless of what ALPA did. What I can't understand is how the leadership of the union can so cavalierly disregard the will of the majority of its membership. What issue will the leadership cave on next? Cabotage? Open skies?
I guess the sky is the limit.