Originally Posted by
gloopy
DAWGS,
Why would ALPA/DPA/APA or any organization expend energy and money to push/lobby for the inevitable side effects of the very same things they willingly voted for, in good times and in bad, including MEMRAT? In other words, if you had the unity, muscle and mindset to do something like that, you (collectively, not you personally) wouldn't have been infected with the mentality that sold the flying to manegement for the express purpose of shopping it around to the lowest outsourced bidder in the first place.
While I agree with what you are saying, I don't agree that anyone anticipated laying off our guys and outsourcing our jobs to the extent that happened after 9-11. Due to the circumstances of the attack, ALPA should have been front and center to coordinate relationships among its members for hiring. Sure you can get hired at the bottom of the payscale and resign your number, come to mind. Botherhood my arse. ALPA should have done much more imho.