Originally Posted by
full of luv
8 years post merger...
Here in 2016 I wonder what year it will be before I go a whole year without hearing any sort of North/South ****ing contest? 2020, 2025? Eventually I suppose we'll run out of fNWA or fDelta pilots, but theoretically that could be 2007 hires from fDelta and if they were 25 when hired.... all the way out to 2047! (assuming the retirement age isn't 80 by then!)
When I was a new hire in 1985, the North East guys I flew engineer for in BOS and MIA were still talking about how they got F'd in their 1972 merger, as if it happened last month!
That and most of them had quit ALPA over it, so most of them were non-members and telling me I should quit ALPA as well, because, "ALPA will Fk you! They are going to put you on a B Scale, just watch!" (we were in contract negotiations at the time, and sure enough, signed the B scale in Aug. 1986)
If they had told me that in 20 years, ALPA would sit by and do nothing while my pay was cut 42% and my retirement plan was flushed down the toilet, I would have said they were on crack. But when I look what's been happening to our contracts since 1985 and the B scale, I can only see 4 years, 2001-2004, that our pay/benefits were 'Good'.
Not great, but good. 4 years out of 31.
Not a very good batting average for ALPA.
