How ironic, on the back of the business reply mail envelop, which arrived with this years ALPA-PAC Congressional listing, is the phrase:
"Every day someone in Washington comes up with a bureaucratic scheme that could cost you money, threaten your lifestyle, diminish your professional standards."
Isn't ALPA National headquarters in Washington DC?
For those reading this at home and are wide awake, skip to the bottom paragraph.
For those who are at the end of a week of night hub turns, just waking up and wondering what hotel/city am I in this morning...read on:
"some one in Washington" = ALPA National
"bureaucratic scheme" = change to Age 60 policy w/o a vote of membership via established ALPA procedures
Well you get the picture by now and can fill in the rest of the blanks....
"cost you money" =
"threaten your lifestyle" =
"diminish your professional standards" =
Make your voices heard, don't vote with your feet, remain a union member. But make an impact the good old fashioned American way, vote with $$$$$. Revoke your ALPA-PAC checkoff today!!!