Originally Posted by
JamesBond
First of all, what "ALPA member" is going to take a secretarial job working for the union?
What bothers me about your quest on the rest of this issue is that you are making value judgements although you say that "a bell hop making 6 figures" doesn't bother you. The underlying tone say otherwise. You are angry that YOUR dues are going to pay those same people, and unlike boycotting Yankee Stadium because you believe A-Roid makes too much, here you are held captive. I feel the same way about the federal government.
Oh, and I totally disagree with your comparison to 80K oil paintings. non sequitur.
I respect your passion however, and fwiw, I don't LIKE it either.
I think its laughable that a doorman would make what I know some of them do (100-200K+ for...being a...doorman LOL!) but hey, if idiots have so much money they can make it rain Jacksons for opening doors or hailing cabs, good for them! Our union shouldn't pay that though, and that's the point.
Maybe not so much right now, but for many, many years post 9-11 I bet you'd have lines going out the door and down the Potomac for ALPA members wanting a 6 figure job doing office work. Especially the furloughed ones, or the many, many thousands of regional FO's who, after the novelty wears off and more RJ SIC time starts doing nothing for their resume (and no one's hiring anyway) they'd jump on it.
I don't think I'm being contradictory at all. I want whats best for ALPA pilots. Paying general office help 6 figures while you have thousands and thousands of pilots you represent, flying multi million dollar airplanes with the responsibility and liability, skill background and training it takes to earn even the worst paying seat in the industry, it's just ridiculous.
Yeah yeah I know, pro union must mean 6 figures and 20 and out for everyone on the face of the earth. Let's party like its 1917 :roll eyes:
And the oil painting analogy was spot on IMO. It smacks of detached baller wanna be syndrome in the same way. Maybe it wouldn't if we didn't have so many thousands of pilots making a third to half of that, but we do.
While we're at it, as soon as we do the aforementioned pension reform, let's add a rock solid "must return to the line" for X number of years non compete clause for the top brass. Shirley they wouldn't have a problem with that, would they? Especially at election time...