Originally Posted by
FliFast
This is the point of my postings, AA73. The TWA folks you fly with ARE great guys. In all fairness to you, you seem like a reasonable guy with a clear sense of things....I'm paying you a compliment.
Here's my point, part of your hard earned paycheck is going to pay dues to the APA so that Capt Lloyd Hill, MEC Chairman, can negotiatate Section 6 of the contract to eliminate all the "excellent individuals" from STL. In essence, your representation, is negotiating with management to screw these "friends" of yours.
Never in my decades of airline experience have I ever heard of a labor group sacrificing their fellow co-workers to management....I'm sure others can cite examples, but I find it unbelievable.
Sincerely, I hope you get a industry leading contract. But hopefully, it won't be predicated by the completion of red-tail cleansing.
Regards,
FF
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Hi FF,
I don't believe that Hill is going to mess with CC. As I mentioned a while earlier, he "talked the big talk" as part of his campaign to get elected... but in the end, messing with CC subjects the APA to a massive DFR dilemma.
I voted for Hill in the end because we needed someone more radical than Hunter, who was willing to fight to restore the profession where it belongs. Never did I ever factor in CC as part of my vote. IMO, CC should be left alone since it protects the career expectations of the TWA pilots it was designed to protect... a.k.a. live by the deal you sign.
I for one do not want ANY red tail cleansing going on, and will fight it if I have to. We are all AA pilots in this together.
Oscar the grouch, I simply posted what I knew about Muse/Transtar/Morris, based on a couple of ex Transtar pilots in my crashpad last year who filled me in. Obviously, their opinions were marred by emotion (as is always the case, two sides to a story and a whole lotta emotions involved!) So if I'm a little inaccurate, that's why. I guess in the end, pointing out the result of a SWA/TWA deal is pointless since nobody will ever know how it would turn out. However, SWAPA, like APA, does tend to gravitate towards stapler mergers based on past events. (And who wouldn't want to be tacked on to the SWA list, anyway!?) This is the way it usually happens bewteen an ALPA/non ALPA merger/acquisition.
Regards to all (and a nice professional debate, thanks guys)
73