Back around 2005 I was flying with a guy that used to be the comptroller at Chevron. He did that for 25 years. He was also in Libya when they nationalized all the U.S. assets for pennies on the dollar. This guy is a walking bag of numbers. He went into great detail on the costs and break even point associated with the oil sands. The number was between $50-60. If oil could stabilized above that price then you would see significant investment in oil sand/shale extraction. In his time at Chevron oil was too cheap to invest in sand/shale.

unify around the organization that has the structure in place to get the greatest gains, and to effectively protect your career.

He's heard the "facts":cool:

Dude, if you think that EVERYBODY is going to fall in live with your beloved alpa and just froth at the mouth over every word that comes out of the national HQ, you seriously need to be drug tested.... There are 12,000 guys here, and there will be quite a few of them that will not agree with the national agenda. If that is what you think will lead to us being conquered, then we are doomed.

but....but... we might not win!

(alpa lawyers are weak and the people advising them are know it alls that have never made at mistake in their life because they have the info and you don't!)

LM and TO have both openly stated that pattern bargaining is over, and that we must get gains on our own. Still waiting for common strategy 2....

Haven't you been paying attention? These are THE BEST labor lawyers EVER to walk the halls of a courtroom. We are soooooo fortunate to have them and should be on our knees daily with praises to the almighty legal team that serves usat $500/hour.

Effective immediately:

T-Mobile USA is enabling phone calls to Japan for postpaid customers without charges for international long distance through March 31, 2011, and retroactive to March 11, 2011.
T-Mobile postpaid customers can make Wi-Fi calls to and from Japan free of charge through March 31, 2011, and retroactive to March 11, 2011.
Text (SMS) messaging is also free of charge to and from Japan for T-Mobile postpaid customers through March 31, 2011 and retroactive to March 11, 2011.


This follows similar announcements from Verizon and ATT.

Let your fellow crewmembers know so they can pass it on to their families while they are on Japan trips.

Yes, they do, but they do not fly jets larger than 76 seats for us on that certificate. Same stuff there 80. Now if the Republic Certificate was doing our flying, we would have a case since they are flying 190's for the MEC/F9 branded flying. Same thing with the F9 certificate.

Nice to jump in with a quip or two, but this is the reality.

To T, it is not a love fest of any level. It is reality, ya know where we all really live.

80, TO never said patterning was dead. RA stated it after we were patterned down in CH11. Of course the company wants it dead.

We (DALPA) will use any method to extract the most for our pilots.

Instead of being keyboard warriors, volunteer your time, go take your rep out for coffee or a dinner and ask them all of these questions. T, you got a real ball banger in NYC, go see what he says. Most likely he will agree with you, like me that the RJET thing sucks, but he will also tell you what reality is. Fight the correct fight, which is to change the wording in the contract, not to fight a structure with the current wording.

You didn't really read the article did you?

Cheers
George