Originally Posted by
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There's no flame bait at all. I've looked into what other professions and advocations are doing. No discussion on voluntary concessions to mitigate furloughs.
I don't want to see what happened at the CAL MEC happen here. That is the sort of stockholm syndrome I am referring to.
I don't understand your 2012 SLI slogan reference.
It's all about supply and demand. Our focus should be on meeting the demand as supply is added back into the system.
I would support ALPA in distributing funds on an as needed basis to any pilots who are furloughed. We've given ALPA allot of money over the years. ALPA could look inside introspectively and see what financial resources could be re-allocated and distributed to pilots in need.
it’s fine to disagree in the free country we live in thanks to those who sacrificed many times involuntarily...if we had a massive biblical type event or war, I would support a draft to support the greater good for instance...you seem to be saying you wouldn’t entertain loosing a minute of your guarantee to save a fellow union pilot from ruin. Voting is part of democracy and the voluntary bit is covered by our freedom to vote or leave anytime we like. Temp pay caps were done by most (not just CAL) union carriers in 2008, FefEx, UPS Ect. I understand your position but how can you justify flying 90+ hour business as usual lines when we are experiencing a historic hit not created by UAL and one single pilot in our list is furloughed? As far as operating efficiency, not much chance of that anytime soon if you have the bottom half furloughed. Do you really believe that United could survive those inefficient times it would take to cut 7000 pilots and some for the third time? As far as Resumes go I’m sure everyone is quite fresh thanks to the last few lessons.