Originally Posted by
Gjet
From my other post:
They are trying to steam roll congress with minimal flack from pilots themselves and their unions. You all know what their grand plan is, don't you? They will push for lower hours AND/OR push to allow foreign pilots in. Wait till Aug hits, then you will see them parking more planes to foster panic so that the public will then start screaming to the congress/senators while the owners sit back and laugh. It will get pushed through, one way or another. Plus you know they are greasing the politicians through their PAC's. Yep, hell of a system we got.
Let's face it, they (owners) are better organized and count on lazy pilot unions and pilots too tired from long days and commutes to lift a finger to fight them. Want proof? Go to the Regional Airline Assoc website, and look for the lobbying info. Then go to your union webpage, and look for their lobbying info.
All the union has to do is post the names of the congressmen with emails/fax/mail and a simple form letter, post it to their pilots, and hit send. How hard is that?
In fact, where the hell are the lobbyist that the unions are bribing? They should know about this stuff and be keeping union leaders "in the know", who should have already sent mail to the pilots regarding this.
Makes you wonder if the unions are doing all they can with the dues they collect, or if they are not paid off by management to do just enough to look like they care.
Originally Posted by
proprunnner
We all this would happen. I'm not surprised, are you? We all pay union fees to Teamsters and ALPA, if they don't show effective management now and fight back, the law will repeal or hours will be lowered by the end of year. And we are pretty much paying for nothing.
Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
Raise the regional pilot pay to a normal livable wage... $100/hour for captain, $65/hour for FO's and shortage will be INSTANTLY solved.
Air Service to Small and Rural Communities | U.S. House of Representatives
All through RJSAviatior....in particular GJet and proprunner....
ALPA IS DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Click the link above to see what your "lazy" union is doing. Who's sitting there, front row, (yesterday) saying over and over to people in the Aviation subcommittee that it is an ECONOMIC problem and NOT a pilot shortage? Lee Moak is. That's what your ALPA dues pay for- the head of the largest pilot union sitting in front of the PEOPLE THAT MATTER, in front of the SUBCOMMITTEE THAT MATTERS, telling them that the profession is in turmoil, that there shouldn't be flags of convenience, that standards shouldn't be lowered, and that pay needs to go up. He TELLS THEM that. Click the link and watch.
Notice that Moak of
ALPA is invited to those meetings. Not the APA. Not USAPA. Not the IAM airline division. Not SWAPA. Not the SkyWest pilot council. Moak is there, representing us. And this isn't the first time if you have been paying attention.
It doesn't end there. Don't you think Moak has the ear of the very important members of that subcommittee? Hearings like these are "dog and pony" shows. The real business gets done behind the scenes. Moak knows the players (notice the camaraderie he shares with the subcommittee members). They know him, and he knows them. That doesn't mean ALPA gets everything it wants. That doesn't mean ALPA can stomp its feet and cross its arms when it doesn't get its way. It means we can INFLUENCE what's going on. That's what you pay for with your dues money.
Premade form letters, easy point-and-click-and send e-mails are nice, but quite frankly, pilots couldn't be bothered to even do something that simple.