A couple of weeks? Good for you. The UAL TA has only been out for a couple of days.

I think it would be legally perilous (and politically risky with ALPA national officer elections in the fall) for any MEC to make public statements about another MEC’s TA.

 

That's not entirely true. We're not dumb animals. We can consciously decide when one's own self-interest has been served adequately, and then focus some energy on helping others who need it. You can do that micro, giving some back every day or week in small ways. Or macro... many or even most ruthless industrial/tech barons turn philanthropist and spend their later years giving their money away. Or in the case of Elon for example, trying to save humanity by establishing extra-planetary colonies. Whether you agree that needs to be done or not, you have to respect the guy's overall motives.

We can all think of experienced great leaders from a variety of fields who we wish would run for office or take political jobs. Most don't, because they don't want to immerse themselves in the cesspool. Gen Mattis as SECDEF is a good example of an exception, and I know as fact that he did it out of a sense of duty to maintain a stable military command & control system.

 

Thinking musk is just some altruist is absurd in the extreme.

 

I didn't say he was altruistic. I said that he thinks he's giving back in his own, even if you don't agree with the specifics.

You don't have to be Mother Thersesa to be "good". How much "good" you need to do is in the eye of the beholder.

 

he is “saving humanity” to serve a narcissistic messiah complex.

You can see this in his cave diver paedophilia accusation.

 

Truth. And the realizing that is the first step towards furthering your own goals

 

An organized minority with a purpose will always defeat an unorganized majority that only wants to be left alone.

All forms of government since the dawn of civilization.

 

yeah, I’m not falling for the Ayn Rand “selfish is good” claptrap. People are awful.

 

"selfish is good fact". Internalize that and behave accordingly.

 

No particular axe to grind, but the secrecy, nepotism, excessive spending at parties, the virtual in ability to contact someone real time with a contract type question, the constant high school election antics, the MASSIVE loopholes in our contract, near zero ability to influence the company to actually operate IAW our contract, ceding international scope, allowing a 767 wide body aircraft to pay narrow body wages, no full pay for a day of cq, the failure to regain contract bankruptcy gives in 14 YEARS post bankruptcy, ALPA guys that once worked for us now on company payroll negotiating against us, the last TA1, charging dues off bonuses. Oh goodness, I could continue, but would it matter. ALPA would be fine with an entire re-write of its by-laws and administration. But no particular axe to grind.