Originally Posted by PCL_128

In short, greed. Money is offered up on a silver platter, and pilots salivate over it and decide that they'd rather sell out the future in order to have more gold today. "I won't be the one to get furloughed," the all say. Only later, after the furloughs and displacements have happened, and the fleet has shrunk, does everyone finally realize just what they've done. And then, of course, they all proclaim "don't blame me, I voted no," even though it ratified by 90%.



Hey, I supported Captain Rice for ALPA President, so you won't see me proclaiming the new guy as the best thing since sliced bread. I'm talking about the organization, not an individual. ALPA is bigger than the guy in the big office. In reality, the President has absolutely nothing to do with what happens with scope. If you want to know who the culprit is on scope giveaways, don't look at the guy with the glossy picture in the magazine, look in the mirror, or look at your fellow pilots in the crew lounge. They're the problem, not some attorneys or national officers in Herndon. Convince your fellow pilots that scope is a priority, and not something to be traded for $10/hr, and you'll be getting somewhere. But if you keep focusing on blaming ALPA, or Captain Moak, or whoever else, then all you'll end up doing is looking back 10 years from now and realizing that you accomplished nothing and lost even more scope, because you threw out the union and still had the same idiot pilots voting to give away scope, regardless of the name on the union office door.