Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1706982)

I'm out mountain biking and I come upon this cabin with this very girl out front getting water from a well, but there's this half-blind toothless guy on the porch with a banjo. The girl comes up to me and showing great interest with these innocent yet somehow sexy (in a trashy way) eyes asks me to stay for dinner.

What should I do?

Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1706982)

I'm out mountain biking and I come upon this cabin with this very girl out front getting water from a well, but there's this half-blind toothless guy on the porch with a banjo. The girl comes up to me and showing great interest with these innocent yet somehow sexy (in a trashy way) eyes asks me to stay for dinner.

What should I do?

Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 1706805)

...my confidence in ALPA is zero.

Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1706853)

How about some inflation-adjusted comparisons? Why the sandbagging?

Originally Posted by Alan Shore (Post 1707024)

That being the case, I certainly hope that you are working to remove your reps from office ASAP, or at least in the next election cycle, and replacing them with those of your fellow pilots (maybe you?) whom you do trust.

The part of ALPA that deals directly with our negotiations and contract enforcement is nothing more and nothing less than those whom we elect to represent us and those whom they then in turn select to do the heavy lifting on our behalf.

Originally Posted by RockyBoy (Post 1706736)

Didn't we go to "self notification" with the new LOA? They will just put it on your schedule and it is up to you to check and ACK the trip.

Originally Posted by Alan Shore (Post 1707027)

I disagree that leaving out the CPI index or some other rate of inflation amounts to sandbagging. None of the other financial metrics shown in the contract history were adjusted for inflation. Further, I am quite capable of adjusting any of those metrics myself in any way I choose.

Originally Posted by Mesabah (Post 1707030)

I've gone this route before, and all ALPA does is bury you in layers of bureaucratic BS. You basically have to run a political campaign to get anywhere, and good luck with that, because usually, the only people who vote, are the ALPA status quo supporters.

So round and round we go, getting nowhere.

Originally Posted by Purple Drank (Post 1707040)

Why wouldn't DALPA be doing everything in its power to highlight the loss of buying power since BK?

Originally Posted by gloopy (Post 1706580)

The assumption is if you don't check it from 1500-2359, fine, but you need to check it by 0000. Of course we no longer have to notify of anything, which was a massive concession IMO. Its unprecedented that we are considered notified now upon first voicemail attempted contact. That was an earth shattering giveaway that will remain forever, long after the higher duty period average goes away during the next crisis or whatever.

I think the company will usually try and notify you, but the logic behind the concessions we gave was that since you can go NORAD for any 10 consecutive hours you want if you haven't got an assignment by then, we shifted the burden of notification to us.