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Originally Posted by FoxHunter
Please FOX or should I say George?
Where do I begin.
ALPA is only as strong as the membership support.
True statement, but to achieve this you need leadership that can adapt to changing conditions. ALPA has failed to do this.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
You blame the poor concessionary contracts on ALPA.
I remember one of your previous posts about striking.....or in your case "Not striking". For us to get a good contract it is looking, unfortunately, like we are going to have to proceed down that path.
The ALPA President has signed them. For us, please define a good contract. You may make noise about striking, ALPA will not let that happen. They may not like it but they know they can't afford it.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
What conditions would the pilots at Northwest, Delta and United, USAIr be working under NOW if they didn't have ALPA?
Probably a little better than SWA is today without ALPA or FedEx with is working under a non-ALPA contract which has much of the FCH from pre-union days.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
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ALPA has nothing to do with a company's profitability that's MGT's job.
Again correct, in part. One only has to look a UAL's summer of 2000 where a ALPA job action put profits into a tailspin, weak management signed off on a contract the company could not afford.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
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As Far as FDX ALPA goes
Actually the FDX MEC has basically the same leadership as the OLD FPA, but,
The entire office and leadership is far better organized then it was under FPA.
Correct again, sort of.
The union leadership ran for office with the intent of bringing ALPA back. The first thing they did was to raise the dues to the ALPA level. I've listed some of the reasons the leadership gave to bring ALPA back. It all sounded good, now there seems to be a growing level of desperation because it has not happened.
Originally Posted by RedeyeAV8r
You don't think the firings had anything to do with Unionizing? Please George, I mean Foxhunter. Just look what is happen at FedEx ground. They are firing folks left and right if they appear to support any unionizing efforts.
Are you really saying the company has no fault in this??
FedEx has never fired or attempted to fire any pilot for union activity. The fact is that there have been a fair number of pilot fired for various other reasons since receiving union protection.