Originally Posted by jsled

All you have to do is look at our contracts during each era. Reagan? good god. What a disaster. After he fired all the controllers and showed the corporate world how to deal with them damn unions (see CAL/UAL strike, scabs, and the AMR permanent B-scale)...Bush-1 and his veto of the congressional bill to stop the Eastern strike...that's the last Repub I voted for! Clinton...RECORD $$$ contracts. 'nuff said. Bush 2...wow! Bankruptcies, double furloughs, pension terminations. OBAMA...c'mon man...NEVER had it THIS good. The point is...bad things happen to our profession (labor unions) when a Repub is in charge. They appoint FAA Administrators , PBGC Directors, NMB members (like Linda Puchala, former AFA union chief who mediated our current contract), and TSA Administrators (KCM ROCKS!). OF COURSE our union is gonna endorse a DEM. If you don't like it, that's ok. Just make sure you keep paying your dues.