Me too! Holy crap I gotta remember to slip a Benjamin in the USB port before each bid from now on....

From not holding Christmas off on rsv last year to holding it off as a lineholder this year, talk about a big change (without much of a change in seniority strangely enough).

Probably not what you expected to find when you Googled "crazy hot flexible split volvo video", but still cool. :p

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So how do you go from working in Delta HR to being a 747 driver? Because if you aren't actually an HR rep, or on the hiring group, than all you got going is your opinion. And you really don't like it when people don't toe the line with your opinion do you?

Correct, he did not say that but I got the distinct impression that he would like to see it as a requirement for a memrat vote. You know 80%+ would be next to impossible to get. I would love to see 100% of guys vote for a contract. But I'm not for increasing the percentage required for passage. If that was done, it would subvert the will of the majority. The majority is the majority no matter how small it is.

Aren't you contradicting yourself a little here? In your first paragraph you say 50%+1 is a majority but not unity. In the second paragraph you say a greater majority would show unity. I believe they both show unity. Now, if you wanted to say a greater majority shows more unity than a smaller majority, I will agree with that.

Denny

Head out West....First Christmas I've worked in 4 years. Nothing but backwards on this side of the country.

Carl, you kind of hit the nail on the head for me...as a fDAL guy I came in having been anti-union in mindset since birth. But during my first two weeks on property we go over to the DALPA building during indoc and we get the big warm welcome (which was nice), plied with alcohol and food, and oh, by the way, you're still going to pay most of these dues even if you don't sign up. So, I sign up. I'm a union guy now. But isn't my union supposed to be fighting to improve our contract for me and my fellow pilots? Sure doesn't seem like they're working to get our pay to where MOST of us think it should be. Why not more talk about where our pay should be? Why does my union spend more time talking about the threat the company keeps pointing to--foreign carriers? Sure, I get it, they're a threat to pilot jobs in our country. But doesn't it seem convenient that that's the topic we hear so much about from our union and the company as far as what we should be concerned about? And if it's not that then it's new FAA rules. Why don't I hear hardly anything about how we need to get our pay back to where it should be? (I say hardly, because I haven't heard anything, but maybe there's been some mention of this as an objective somewhere). It's as if they don't want to attract any negative attention from the company or show any indication of being on a different page from the company. So, yes, DALPA, you convinced me to join your union, but it's weird--I don't feel like I'm in a union based on how hunky dory the relationship is. The last thing I'm suggesting is that DALPA seek a contentious relationship; I don't pretend to think that would be good for any of us. But the BFF relationship? I guess that's good if you like the status quo.

I've worked the last 6. :cool: Nice for a change!

This is an idiotic remark, even by your standards, Carl. You have yet to even fly with a fDAL pilot. Just where is it that your gain your wise insight into our nature?

I have the pleasure of flying with many fNWA pilots- probably one out of four guys I fly with are fNWA, in fact. They're great guys, and aren't different from fDAL guys in any significant way.

You seem to be lashing out and denigrating your fellow pilot even more than usual. Are we witnessing the death throes of the Detroit Pilots Association now? It ain't pretty.

You are one of the main reasons I've gone from posting here to occasionally lurking. Logging on to APC and seeing your posts is a lot like turning on CNN and seeing Nancy Grace.

No, I've got the rocking chair shrink's opinion. Have a number of friends who interviewed with him. They tell me of this part of the interview:

Shrink: What are your thoughts regarding unions?

Pilot: We didn't have them in the military so I'm no expert, but I don't understand the concept of striking.

Shrink: And it's my job to ensure you never do.

As I said earlier, a lot of RD's got past his game...but a significant percentage didn't. I know you don't see it, but many others do. I'm one of them. Maybe we're all wrong.

Why would you say that? I don't think you've done anything but disagree with me since I got here...yet I'm still responding to you cordially.

Carl

Dude, seriously, try decaf or non alcoholic beer or wear a tin foil hat... something. You are going completely around the bend.