As I stated many posts ago this was never something the company wanted badly. It was a solution pushed more from our end to the 30 layovers based on some pilots wanting CDO's back. The cost was very high for the company to fly them. Follow the money, it's never wrong!

 

It's the big wedge thing we used for a foot rest. Could also be used as a liberator.

The Official Site of Liberator Shapes - Sex Furniture, Adult Pillows

 

Being a Navy guy, I'm going to have to go ahead and correct you. That is an F/A-18.

 

Niel Trap!

 

If this is true, it is very sad. 15 or so guys at an LEC meeting propose this nonsense and my MEC thinks this is what 11500+ guys want?

If this is how tuned in our MEC is to our pilot group, I am more than a little concerned for our 2015 negotiations.

 

BTW, words matter... I will repeat my post from yesterday.

SOS, in this industry, has always meant the nuclear option, i.e., Suspension of Service. (All wheels come to a complete stop.)

Our national union, in one email, has changed that important acronym to mean Save our Skies... very significant.

 

Was there a recent resolution? I know there was one from 2010 and it was shot down.

So this is the conundrum wrt the resolution system isn't it? If the MEC blows off a resolution passed at an LEC meeting, they are not being responsive to the pilots. If they adapt it, then they should not be listening to just 15 pilots.

What should they do? (This is not a rhetorical question) poll the whole pilot group after every resolution is passed? It is not unusual for the MEC to consider 30 local resolutions at one meeting. The phone lines at our homes maybe ringing off the hook. At that point, we have just about eliminated the needs for reps at all as we are just about to the point of a direct democracy.

That being said, I have no idea how the MEC got to the point where they were considering something as controversial as CDOs without much more input from the pilot group. Many pilot sponsored issues are no brainers and great ideas, this one was not.

Either way, the pilots that are willing to stay informed were able to turn the tide. Good on ya!

 

I love the graphic, only one problem, you have Index getting behind Tsquare. I think that is unlikely to happen.

 

That post is like a little piece of paper that got rolled into a tiny ball, and 80 and ftb are like kittens that just momentarily froze, across the room.

It's on.

 

Do you guys also try to convince your wife and kids that you're saving our union democratic process on the internet, and there was this very important LOA, and you were going to have to do these awful, awful trips, which would take you away from them, so you had to get the word out, but you love them very much? Do they buy it?

Or is it just better to say you're surfing for porn?