Have you checked your "Time Card" yet? I think you will see it there, but not until after you've flown the trip.

 

Yeah....sort of. It's on there, just not in a way that makes sense to me. What I would expect is something along the idea of 'your pay this month will be res guar plus 1 day gs.' That may be what I"m looking at, but it's not that obvious to me.

 

Time card is where everything ends up. Halfway down, right side. "RES ASSIGN-G/SLIP PAY" is where the reserve GS ends up. Add that to "CREDIT APPLICABLE TO REG G/S SLIP PAY" a couple of rows up, that will be your pay for the month.

 

I guess many don't give ALPO the time of day anymore. I quit supporting the PAC, quit opening ALPO emails, and really just quit caring about ALPO period. They have ZERO credibility with me. I do, however, have 1.9% taken out of every paycheck. This is way to much considering the little value I see coming back from them. How much did they spend on selling this POS TA? Again, no credibility results in few people taking 10 seconds of there time to do this.

 

Credibility? I'm no alpa cheerleader, believe me. This is just laziness.

Need some motivation?

https://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0

 

+1. You nailed it, Schwank. There is some tool on the widget Facebook page crowing about how ALPA got one of its issues to a vote in the Senate. Never mind that the bill will be vetoed, and that a vote would have happened either way because corporations were behind it. This clown gave full credit to the ALPA PAC.

The only chances we have of influencing Congress are on the issues we happen to share with A4A or the Delta Air Lines PAC (I'm waiting to see what high-priced wh0re--I mean lobbyist--the company hires as "SVP of Congressional Relations.) We have ZERO meaningful influence on issues we oppose the management on. Exhibit A: FAR 117.

Anyway, to have a voice with our legislators, we need at least one of these:

- Numbers. A high percentage of registered, likely voters. We don't have numbers.

- Money. A ****load of it. Not a couple hundred a year each. Unless we agree to tithe our paychecks to the ALPA PAC, we are irrelevant. We don't have money.

- Some way to exploit or invent victimization or entitlement. "Pilot Lives Matter" won't cut it.

I used to contribute to and support the ALPA PAC. But after looking at the money thrown around by the ME3, A4A, and others...we have zero influence. Sure, the lowlife politicians on Capitol Hill will pat us on the head, pretend to listen, and cash our checks...and do exactly what they were going to do before we gave them money.

"Call to action." What a joke. It's all a ploy to get the money rolling into ALPA PAC. How much are we paying for overhead there, anyway?

p.s. the latest number on the TA sales job is $1,700,000...or about $130 per pilot.

 

I don't disagree the ME3 is a threat to our flying. Also not accusing you of being a cheerleader.

Point is: With no credibility with the line pilots, few will get behind their efforts. I don't even bother looking at their propaganda anymore. Call it laziness if you like. I just don't count on any ALPA led effort to enhance my job (can no longer call it a career).

I do support my LEC and am hopeful for change going forward in our new MEC (especially after the C44 transformation is complete). Don't confuse this with my lack of caring about ALPA.

 

Yup...I need to see a change before I get involved again, but if too many of us have my attitude there will be no change. The circle of apathy and disappointment wins in this case. 25 years of ALPA malfeasance has taken all the love out of me. I now direct it elsewhere. Anyone need a hug?

 

It's not necessarily laziness. ALPA national is a self-serving bureaucracy intent only on it's own continuance. I don't understand why anyone opens their emails, much less listens to anything they have to say on any subject. And yes, I do understand the dangers of the ME3, so I wrote my own letters to the WH and my Congressfolk. My experience has been that if you are counting on National you are fated to be disappointed. But, to each his own.

 

Hey, if you wrote your own letters, that's great. Thanks for doing that. For the rest of us, the call to action link is almost ridiculously easy and quick to use. I believe it can make a difference.

I have two relatives who lobby in DC. That's pretty much all that town is now, and you wouldn't believe the two things they lobby for. As in: They have lobbyists?? We absolutely HAVE to be there. I don't care if it's ALPA, DPA, or Billy Bob's airline pilots and bait shop... all I care about is having a voice. Right now that's ALPA. Well, thanks again for writing the letters. Those actually go a long way. Cheers...