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Originally Posted by fishforfun
I don’t mean any disrespect but are the ones saying that you can’t say what he’s saying also the ones saying we would never get a second chance after TA1 was voted down?
You're not being disrespectful. Youre asking good questions.
Listen up and you'll never hear anything more accurate. Alpa is for many of us, above all, a volunteering group. A group where smart and/or hard working pilots work together long hours to fix the world around them and help their pilots, and protect them from stupid and apathetic middle-and sometimes top- management. This is where these warnings come from.
There are also politicians in alpa who work only for themselves and who are a cancer and a curse. They are filthy rats who sniff around for flight loss pay and mooch and spend and carry on and do nothing. Since politicians are a blight they can't even stand other politicians and they fight and fight and throw feces at each other. That's where fights about which contract is better and what is enough. Those are the lesser of two evils which suck up so much time and brainpower.
Angry pilots say angry things, and it makes other pilots feel angry and join them, and before long the company managers feel under attack and they go after those pilots. Courts have historically had no patience for illegal job actions, none. Not every pilot gets punished, but God when it comes down it is awful. Take the warnings for what they are, concern. No one is saying shut up, we're trying to say, oh God please careful. Some of the pilots on this web board are too tough to ever heed a warning. Men among men. The rest of us Meer mortals must be careful and I would hope you can at least understand if not sympathize.