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%.
An unbelievably stupid, arrogant and ignorant statement.
Originally Posted by
PCL_128
In reality, the President has absolutely nothing to do with what happens with scope.
Really. Did you miss the new president's statement saying that his highest priority in negotiations is to use all of ALPA national's resources to ensure that contracts are negotiated based on what's best for the profession as a whole, and not be self-serving?
Carl