I am sorry for the emotional trauma that you and a few others appear to be going through, but the choice to be traumatized is really up to you.

Somehow, a few of you have determined that this is an "ALPA" board and that people with dissenting views should be excluded. I understand this to be a public board where ideas may be published freely. Furthermore, I imagine that the general reader does not need you to help them decide whether to read or not.

I find it humorous that one reader thinks that I am "trolling" for USAir pilots on the Purple Tails board (he must not be aware of Mr. Webb's current connection to the USAir pilots). One point of my article (along with other articles that I have posted) is that while both ALPA national and the FedEx MEC chairman refused to publish articles that I wrote (while a member in good standing) regarding numerous strategic issues facing our profession, there was no apparent hesitation in having our MEC chaiman share the podium with a known strikebreaker who cost this profession dearly. Regardless of how you feel about what I say, do you not find that to be astonishingly useful information in assessing the weakness of this profession today?

I am aware that some pilots will never see the connection between ALPA's persistent leadership failures and the trouncing you took at the bargaining table the last time around (specifically, the significant deterioration of work rules), the purposeful ignoring of the impending Age 60 "train wreck" until it was too late, and the various other shortcomings discussed on this board from time to time. Well, at least you got Agency Shop in return for your concessions. That little provision ensures that you will never have a meaningful say in what goes on here, nor will you ever be able to get anything changed. "They" have your money and you voted to give up the power of the pocketbook.

Nice job.

Bob