I've been to allot of rodeo's. This one is been done before. Big deal. Lorenzo is an arse hole. I met the SOB and probably you haven't. Lorenzo and I talked about ALPA pins. He went by the 1/3 rule. One third are pussies and don't care about the pin. 1/3 will listen to ALPA and 1/3 are clueless. He goes after the clueless and he counts on the pussies. He figures that some of the clueless are easy for the picking.

If you like the pin and it gives you warm and cozy feelings great. But, Lorenzo counted on (and got) pin wearing and uninformed selfish people who were ALPA members to cross the line. How many UAL pilots wore a pin and still crossed?

The pin is so "passay" A real show of solidarity would be putting one's nuts on the table for the cutting. I am not for things that are for show. I am for things that drive results. ALPA decides who can and who can't wear a pin. But, ALPA also wants all hands on deck. So, ALPA needs to find a way for both the "pin" and for solidarity to co-exist. Some find the pin to have the opposive effect on solidarity. Why? I think I explained it.

Some of the strongest unionists I've ever seen and followed didn't have a union pin, they just walked the walk and talked the talk and backed it up.