Originally Posted by Whereisalpa

I will not wax on about days of yore, but my dad was hired in the mid 60's and RETIRED at the of 60. He is now 78 and enjoying a 175k+/year retirement. He asks me often how my "career" is going. I have to flat out lie to him. If he knew of 40% pay cuts and the LOSS of a pension, RJ flying that kept me in the right seat for 18 years, he would keel over and cry. He would never understand how alpa could bend over and take it up the shoot while mgmt and alpa reps milk the fruit of my labor. This "TA" and our union have vastly underestimated how sick we are of telling our kids, "no, we can't buy that... or we have to wait until next pay day." This great once great career has turned into an average job. Take away PS, outsource jobs, raise quitting age to 70?!?!? When will it be enough is enough to get us some respect and money back into our families lives??

Originally Posted by satchip

But it can't stop at DN, he's just the Junior player. I'm sure the hierarchy has promised him some committee job so he can continue his ALPA political career. We need to recall the whole lot of them. AG, the CA who ran as an FO, HC, the Chief Propagandist, and whoever the other guy is. Clean house and fumigate.

Originally Posted by RonRicco

I have no idea if it applies to this situation, but the history is sure there. One only need to look at the players who have either lost an election or who have just simply become unelectable, they appear in full time positions via appointment under the mantra of "the chairman should get to choose his guys." That is of course until it isn't "their" chairman and then they will change their previous codes of conduct and use roll call to recall because they don't like who the chairman did select, or happened to remove from those full time fpl positions.