Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
No amount of biblical length rants on your part will change the following acl:
You support an organization that wants to grow the regionals while representing both regionals and majors.
You support an organization that states its highest priority in negotiations is to use all of its resources to ensure that local contracts aren't selfish and improve the entire profession as defined by ALPA.
You support an organization that tried to bust a union.
Utterly shameful.
Carl
Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Ask your FedEx friends what they think of ALPA now that ALPA is trying to jam a TA down their throats with fear tactics. Sound familiar?
Carl
Horse malarkey. No where has ALPA ever said that they want RJ's over mainline. Heck we are worth more silly. What ALPA has said is simple. We desire to represent the trade/profession of professional pilots. That means everything from Bear Skin to DALPA pilots. Small to large, unified we stand, and divided we fall.
This idea of DPA or an independent worked for APA because it was in teh 1960's and it will not work today. Too much power building would need to take place, and not enough time or resources. It was done in a regulated market.
As for FedEx, the thought outside of the box, agreed to pay and a few others things, left scheduling alone knowing that in August the whole thing would be thrown out with the new FAR117 being enacted. If guys have a problem with it, they can vote NO. Again, letting the process work. A tried and true process.
FedEx ALPA is telling their guys why they did it, giving the rationale for it, and if their pilots do not buy it, so be it. That is the process. It does not mean because they do not get their way, they take their toys and go home, build their own sandbox and make beleive that everything is better because they are part of a group that thinks just like them. You hate group think and here you are advocating isolationism and group think.
