Originally Posted by
Klako
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -- Fourteenth Amendment To the Unite States Constitution.
Apparently you the FAA, ALPA and APA consider the United States Constitution to be not applicable to United States airline pilots
The law suits over the age 60 rule are coming. The FAA is culpable along with the labor unions who dealt bad faith to their own senior union members by perpetuating the age 60 rule for over 40 years. ALPA and APA institutionalized age discrimination as an accelerated job advancement scheme insuring early promotions for junior pilots. Labor unions such as ALPA and APA had no right in dictating to the rest of the United States airline industry when all airline pilots must retire.
Equal protection means equal protection, get it
If you read the constitution as a contract between the people and the federal government (as opposed to a "living document"), then the specific words have meaning and you can predict what will happen based on the text. Your citation of the 14th amendment indicates that you agree with this view.
If you have this view, however, you'll see that the government violates the constitution all the time. Every day. The 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 10th amendments in particular.
If the gov't decides to back your view, then you have a case. If they don't like it, then it doesn't matter what the text of the 14th amendment says.
Welcome aboard, we need all the help we can get.
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