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Old 09-22-2010, 05:47 PM
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PG, upload it to a file sharing site like Flicker et al and then post a link to it.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy View Post
I admire your honestly. I'm working on the graph now. Do you have the M88 rates for 1990-1995? Also, how about anything for before 1987? Anyone?

So far, with what I've got; the graph pretty much proves exactly what i stated. But I'd like to fill in the holes, then maybe someone smarter than me can help me figure out how to post it.
Unfortunately, I don't have the 1990-1995 rates. I wasn't here then. I had a hard enough time finding the 1986 rate as an example. I'll be very interested in seeing what you find. Thanks for taking this on as a project.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver View Post
alfaromeo seemed to be justifying the 42% cut by asserting that our C2K rates were too much. What did he call it... "the richest labor contract in history"? I was just adding some perspective to show that the 42% cut was not justified.

I think if you look at history, you will see that the buying power of a major airline pilot has been relatively consistent from the 1960's all the way through the 1990's. Sure, there have been some ups and downs and isolated examples, but nothing like what we saw in the past decade. Deregulation happened about 30 years ago, right? The massive decrease in the value of our profession didn't happen until over 20 years into deregulation. I really don't think you can blame it on that.
Well, there you go making stuff up. I was trying to point out that the same attorneys that you accuse of failing us, also helped us negotiate the best contract in history. Where do you come off saying I said it was too much? Do you just make this stuff up?

Here is how you justify a 42% paycut. You have a company that loses massive amounts of money 6 years in a row and goes bankrupt. The country has voted for the last 30 years for a government that primarily views labor as a speed bump for management and has passed laws and appointed officials highly slanted away from labor and towards management. Bankruptcy court has become a rubber stamp for management to reject contracts and take away labor's right to strike. It's sort of like giving me St. Mary's prep football team and asking me to take on the Saints. There's no victory there, you can only hope to staunch the bleeding.

That's how you justify a 42% paycut. Every other union, every other labor group, every other airline faced basically the same thing. Southwest management made a gigantic gamble on the future of oil prices and that gamble hit the lotto 1,000 times over. Because of that gamble, SWAPA, who by the way employs the same tactics and strategy of DALPA, has been completely insulated from the devastation of the last decade due to this brilliant (and lucky) move from their management. List out the CEO's of the big 6 airlines in 2001 and tell me how many of those guys are still working in the industry.

You want ALPA to act as some magic force field to protect you from the economic and government forces that have acted to slash the industry and its workers back to what it is today. Tell me how DPA will protect you from that and I will vote for them. Right now, I prefer to stay with an organization that pools our resources and is trying to push the pendulum back to the middle to give us some type of leverage again.

Is ALPA perfect? No. But I am not either and I have never seen any organization ever that is perfect. So I am sure that the magicians in the DPA will kiss our boo-boos and make it all better. This is what the Airways guys said about USAPA. They have produced nothing but pain for their pilots, lawsuits, injunctions, legal bills over $12 million in two years, pilots on furlough, pilots on furlough out of seniority. So sure, lets place our hopes on these three guys who put up a website where they answer their own questions quite glibly:

Q. Alfaromeo, can you leap tall buildings with a single bound?
A. Sure, and I can catch bullets in my teeth and make high grade crude oil out of toenail clippings. I am sure that I can apply all these skills to produce a 90% pay raise in four weeks. It is all quite simple.

On second thought, dump ALPA and vote for me, I just convinced myself.
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Old 09-22-2010, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy View Post
Do you have the M88 rates for 1990-1995?
September 1992: 12 yr Capt $158.61 12 yr FO $108.33

Then I think they got cut in POS96.
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Old 09-22-2010, 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Check Essential View Post
September 1992: 12 yr Capt $158.61 12 yr FO $108.33

Then I think they got cut in POS96.
Thanks, Check. $158.61 in 1992 translates to $259.18 in 2012 adjusted for inflation. That compares with our 1986 rate of $135.53, which adjusts for inflation to $280.13 in 2012. So... the 1986 buying power is reduced by 7.5% in 1992. Based on those two points, Pineapple's graph would show a slight decline in buying power... possibly due at least in part to the lingering effects of deregulation as he claims. The only problem is that there is a BIG difference between -7.5% over 6 years and -42% over 2 years. Assuming the graph shows a decline of 7.5% every 6 years or so from 1960 to 1999, then it would look about like I theorized... It would show a slightly declining line overall, with a moderate spike downward in 1996 and a moderate spike upward in 2000 followed by an unprecedented fall off the proverbial cliff about 5 years ago.

Bottom line, though. I can live with $280.13/hr or $259.18/hr. Those numbers get this job back in the ballpark of where I reasonably expected it to be at this point in my career. The first one ($280.13) requires a 67% increase from our current contract 2012 rates. The second one ($259.18) requires a 55% increase.

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Old 09-22-2010, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by alfaromeo View Post
Well, there you go making stuff up. I was trying to point out that the same attorneys that you accuse of failing us, also helped us negotiate the best contract in history. Where do you come off saying I said it was too much? Do you just make this stuff up?

Here is how you justify a 42% paycut. You have a company that loses massive amounts of money 6 years in a row and goes bankrupt. The country has voted for the last 30 years for a government that primarily views labor as a speed bump for management and has passed laws and appointed officials highly slanted away from labor and towards management. Bankruptcy court has become a rubber stamp for management to reject contracts and take away labor's right to strike. It's sort of like giving me St. Mary's prep football team and asking me to take on the Saints. There's no victory there, you can only hope to staunch the bleeding.

That's how you justify a 42% paycut. Every other union, every other labor group, every other airline faced basically the same thing. Southwest management made a gigantic gamble on the future of oil prices and that gamble hit the lotto 1,000 times over. Because of that gamble, SWAPA, who by the way employs the same tactics and strategy of DALPA, has been completely insulated from the devastation of the last decade due to this brilliant (and lucky) move from their management. List out the CEO's of the big 6 airlines in 2001 and tell me how many of those guys are still working in the industry.
I don't think you can say that one the up side we got a great contract because of great negotiating and counsel yet the downside was due to a rotten economy. I have a much easier time believing that the majority of it all was the economy and really pattern bargaining. Each carrier leapfrogging the next and setting a new benchmark. During your contract 2000, hadn't the company been making substantial profits and realizing quite a bit of growth? I am not sold on the idea that your record pay rates were due to the outstanding legal team employed, but I could be wrong.
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Old 09-22-2010, 07:33 PM
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Thanks, but that really didn't answer my question.
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Old 09-22-2010, 07:36 PM
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I have said repeatedly....pay rates alone tell about 10% of the story. It's a good place to start though I suppose.
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Old 09-22-2010, 07:48 PM
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Guys,

You can obviously sharp-shoot for areas where ALPA has done very well if you support them, and conversely point out areas where they have done rather poorly if you do not support them.

That will get us nowhere, and I don't see many changing their preconceived opinions on this issue. One thing that I find interesting is the ALPA attacks on any competition.

If ALPA is half as good as they claim to be they should welcome this challenge. This action provides the perfect opportunity for ALPA to go head to head against the potential competition and point out why they deserve to be our union. Let the facts speak for themselves, lets have an open debate followed by a vote.

If ALPA is as good as they think - it will be a slam dunk. On the other hand maybe ALPA will learn something about itself.

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Old 09-22-2010, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by alfaromeo View Post
Well, there you go making stuff up. I was trying to point out that the same attorneys that you accuse of failing us, also helped us negotiate the best contract in history. Where do you come off saying I said it was too much? Do you just make this stuff up?

Here is how you justify a 42% paycut. You have a company that loses massive amounts of money 6 years in a row and goes bankrupt. The country has voted for the last 30 years for a government that primarily views labor as a speed bump for management and has passed laws and appointed officials highly slanted away from labor and towards management. Bankruptcy court has become a rubber stamp for management to reject contracts and take away labor's right to strike.

Not True, how about Hawaiian and their BK / contract process?

It's sort of like giving me St. Mary's prep football team and asking me to take on the Saints. There's no victory there, you can only hope to staunch the bleeding.

That's how you justify a 42% paycut. Every other union, every other labor group, every other airline faced basically the same thing.

Again, see above, Hawaiian.

Southwest management made a gigantic gamble on the future of oil prices and that gamble hit the lotto 1,000 times over.

Wow, the dramatization...1000 times over...gigantic gamble.

Nope. Just better hedging and understanding of commodities than anyone else.

Because of that gamble, SWAPA, who by the way employs the same tactics and strategy of DALPA, has been completely insulated from the devastation of the last decade due to this brilliant (and lucky) move from their management.

Again, gamble-brilliant-lucky? Really? How about just better at managing their risk.

List out the CEO's of the big 6 airlines in 2001 and tell me how many of those guys are still working in the industry.

You want ALPA to act as some magic force field to protect you from the economic and government forces that have acted to slash the industry and its workers back to what it is today.

No. I just want someone, anyone for that matter that will
1. Listen to their constituents.
2. Represent their needs.
3. Be fiscally responsible.
4. Fix the stacked deck that promoted the decay of ALPA

Tell me how DPA will protect you from that and I will vote for them. Right now, I prefer to stay with an organization that pools our resources and is trying to push the pendulum back to the middle to give us some type of leverage again.

Is ALPA perfect? No. But I am not either and I have never seen any organization ever that is perfect. So I am sure that the magicians in the DPA will kiss our boo-boos and make it all better. This is what the Airways guys said about USAPA. They have produced nothing but pain for their pilots, lawsuits, injunctions, legal bills over $12 million in two years, pilots on furlough, pilots on furlough out of seniority.

Really? That was all about seniority grab and stopping Nicolau. This is different.

So sure, lets place our hopes on these three guys who put up a website where they answer their own questions quite glibly:

It appears that these three guys have tapped into the main vein. They get it and have hit a responsive nerve with the pilots. Alfa, looks like they hit a nerve with you too but it looks like it hurt.


Q. Alfaromeo, can you leap tall buildings with a single bound?
A. Sure, and I can catch bullets in my teeth and make high grade crude oil out of toenail clippings. I am sure that I can apply all these skills to produce a 90% pay raise in four weeks. It is all quite simple.

On second thought, dump ALPA and vote for me, I just convinced myself.
Should we open up the HA can of worms while we are at this???
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