Just curious, is this an admission that CAPA hasn't been very effective in the ARC process, as they're unable to participate in a timely manner?
No Slowplay, its nothing more than what it is...the fact that the management groups and ALPA have been working on a reduced hours proposal and tried on several occasions to call meetings at the last minute, hoping that the ARC members opposed to the watered down proposal would not be able to attend to argue on the record against it.
How did CAPA handle the age 65 rule, the one where SWAPA wanted a change and APA didn't?
Don't know, wasn't there. I can find out. The difference between CAPA and ALPA, since that appears to be your question, is that if there is a difference of opinion, they decide how to handle it...as opposed to cooking a bunch of polling questions and staking a position that many ALPA members opposed, but the union went along with.
Isn't USAPA threatening to pull out of CAPA over the last election's politics?
To my knowledge, no. There was disappointment over the vote...again, as I understand it. If your hope is that as a result of a disagreement, USAPA will come back to ALPA to cover the upcoming financial hits from the lawsuits and fill the coffers? I wouldn't say that's a sound bet.
As to your Teamsters, have you guys found Hoffa yet?
You've asked that before. Pretty unprofessional, don't you think?
No different than asking if you found what Prater was "taking back" besides the empty Scotch bottles and fine cigar wrappers? Or maybe if you've found the receipts for the hooker flown out from DTW to the 06' BOD to "help" get votes for Prater. Done by a certain regional MEC chairman? How about you stop heading down that rabbit hole? You never know what someone might find...
As far as IBT? His son runs it, and has done a pretty decent job of cleaning up the mess from the people who came after his dad.
How many other properties have you raided (against your organizations agreement)?
Let's see...there's Horizon...oops, you guys are trying to raid them...again.
There's ATI...when the Airline Division refused to sign a concessionary agreement that would allow their holding company to whipsaw jobs and further attack pilot wages at ANY union carrier, Prater came dancing in and said, "come to ALPA and I'll sign the deal." He did just that. And the jobs and airplanes ATI was promised if they decerted and signed the deal? They stayed at ABX.
I can only assume you are once again running on Bruce York's and Representations recitatioins of events under the old Airline Division that was replaced over 2 years ago. I don't believe you can cite a single case, post 2007.
And if you are referring to Atlas? The Atlas pilots began the decert on their own. Why? Because Prater refused to protect their contractual rights and lied openly to their MEC and negotiating Committee in 2007, when he promised to conclude the merger. Sadly in May 2008 at the Exec Board, Prater and the Board were told yet again what was needed to stop the decert. They chose to do just the opposite. Including a phone call from Prater demanding an illegal job action...and yes, please ask...it's on tape.
What's it like working under a staff run, member supported organization, especially one that's in receivership?
I'm sure all your Atlas pilots knew what a "business agent" was when they signed on! ;-)
Truth be told? Pretty good. A "business agent" is their term for a "contract administrator." And given what they have just negotiated in the new, joint contract? I'm guessing you've never seen a pay increase like they are getting. Or a bonus like what they are getting.
BTW...how much in profit sharing did you get last year? Atlas pilots got 12.5% of their gross salary....in some cases, over $35,000.00. Most F/O's averaged $15,000.00.
Seems like ACL isn't the only one leaving out the whole story...!