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Old 05-09-2019 | 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by baseball
Ultimately, anyone involved in the process is going to get hammered. You ask for the names of the actual decision makers and you get nothing. it's a committee. It's an ameba...

If ALPA is involved in it, ALPA will get 50% of the blame for it's failure. I am sure the company is more than ok with that.

I saw some ALPA uniform committee folks out and about in the school yard and I spoke to them about the uniform they were wear testing. They got their feelings hurt when being asked questions about it. They took offense as if to take it personally.

Some of the feedback I received was "I am serving my union, serving the pilots." Ok, I get that. But they are sort of overly invested in the outcome and don't want to hear the negative feedback about the Barney look.

So, as an institution ALPA won't look good at the end of the day.

and as individual ALPA volunteers those folks won't be happy that their peers aren't pleased with the entire boon-doggle. I see it as a lose-lose for ALPA and the volunteers.

Who exacty is the main company point of contact (accountable person), and who is the main ALPA point of contact (accountable person)? I think that's where the feedback should go directly. That's how to engage.
All true, and the skinny stripes (invisible pilot) seem to be driven from the ALPA side. Every update adresses color and fabric - anything except why the visible part of the pilot rank and authority is being diminished.

Your observation about the wear testers being defensive about the uniform is doubly true.
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