Originally Posted by baseball

Sometimes it may be in ALPA's best interest to pull back from certain things. This may be one of them.

We have uniform committee reps involved in the process.

Why exactly?

To me this is like having ALPA reps being forced to come up with concessions for a concessionary contract. ALPA might be wise to turn away from some specific opportunities to collaborate with the company.

I do like collaboration when and where it counts....FOQA, ASAP, and Safety come to mind. Great upside to the pilots and the profession.

I don't see much upside for ALPA or the committee volunteers on this one. They'll have egg on their face no matter what the outcome.

Professional, conservative, and easy to wear. Those should be the three over-riding principles.

The company is pushing purple, and color pallets derived from social and demographic studies on calming and pleasing shades and hues of colors that professional pilots wouldn't wear to the Queens Jubilee, wedding, funeral, business luncheon, speaking engagement, or on a 8 day international W pairing.

Perhaps ALPA should walk away from the process. Our interest aren't co-aligned and are therefore unequally yoked. Union participation in any company led process should provide unity to and on behalf of our pilots. It shouldn't divide the pilots, but bring them together. Since this is not the case, the union should not participate in this exercise in futility, nor should we spend ALPA resources on it (human or tangible).