Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
Ah, there it is. The ubiquitous ALPA straw man argument. The "just say no crowd." Hint: that crowd is growing exponentially every day.
And it's stunning how fast ALPA went from promising an "historic" contract to dispatching messengers here to tell us that if we vote down a crappy TA, we have "unreasonable contract demands."
I'm happy to wind the clock and cash profit sharing checks until RA figures it out. I'd wager many of "those approaching retirement" will be just fine doing the same.
Hey Drank, Im not an ALPA mole. Nobody dispatched me to give any message. I could care less about gripes with the union. Sour grapes. Union complaints bore me. I don't care to go on about that.
All the forums, the original compuserve boards (hey Mickley), the old DALPA forum, this APC, and chit-chat, all have the same group of the "Just say NO crowd", "DPA (or PPA) wannabes", "whiners", and "ALPA crusaders".
That never changes.
Im telling you
I think we will get a good contract not a crappy one, and Im not willing to wind the watch just to settle old resentments. The "just say NO crowd" just want to vote NO. They don't care if you pay them a million dollars a week and work only on Tuesday. They are looking for a fight. I guarantee you any contract they see will be "crappy" for some obscure, and probably personal, reason or another. I hope that crowd is not growing exponentially as you say. Although I don't know how you would know that.