Originally Posted by
Tigerpilot1995
ALPA pointed to a UPS website that “explains how DHL
customers can ensure that their packages will get to their destinations by
switching now to UPS.”
"This website reveals the true nature of this deal, which was never designed
to provide better package delivery services to the North American public,"
said Capt. John Prater, president of ALPA. "Congress needs to get to the
bottom of this deal, which is bad for the already struggling U.S. economy."
I friggin hate ALPA. I will be calling them today to tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine. I haven't paid ALPA dues in over a year and they still send me all their trash. I sent quite a few messages a year ago asking them to take me off their list. Of course, I was just an RJ guy so I was ignored. I now take a black marker, circle ALPA on the piece of media, draw an arrow to the side, and write "is a Joke". Then I write, "return to sender." They don't even care about that. They just continue to waste member's money by mailing me all their crap. Makes me feel better though
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Having been from the ALPA furlough class of '90 I can relate. The only two good things from ALPA at USAir for me was the drunken dinner they threw for us at (I think) a Cork n' Cleaver in PIT as a newhire in '89 (our class set the record for bar tab
) and the magazine after I was laid off. While the furlough was the result of USAir management and Gulf War I, USAir ALPA sold us out for senior pilot interests keeping us on the street five years longer than we should have been. Fortunately most of us found other jobs and didn't put any faith in what has traditionally been a captain's club revolving around UAL and DAL. While I see why some end up with them as opposed to Teamsters, I'll take IPA any day, magazine or not. If it comes down to that I think you'll be surprised at how we come together to keep guys on property...keep in mind a high percentage of us have already been there. But I do have to say the good numbers don't hurt, and by the end of November labor will get their first lesson in Barry 101 when he says "ALPA who?".