Originally Posted by
Grease5667
An Update On Recent Events
Casey Murray, President
Much has occurred in the last week, and an update is in order. By now, most of you have heard talk of legislation being introduced to increase our retirement age from 65 to 67, possibly 68. Our Union’s long-standing position, as reflected in the SWAPA National Airline Policy (NAP), is that we are opposed to changing the FAA mandatory retirement age. The NAP, approved each year by our Board of Directors, guides our Government Affairs Committee as they represent our membership’s interests in Washington D.C.
I can’t believe they’re polling on this. Every year it gets voted at the BOD level to disagree with any push past age 65. Now we poll just to be double triple sure we don’t want this? Unbelievable. When the results come out 65-35 against pushing the retirement, we will look listless and weak.
Real strong backbone there, SWAPA.