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From the ALPA web site:

Join ALPA’s New President
Captain John Prater
AT A PILOT ROAD SHOW

Captain Prater wants to hear your ideas on how to make 2007 a banner year for ALPA pilots! Join Captain Prater, your ALPA
national officers, and your MEC and LEC reps on

February 7 in Seattle, Washington,

as we plot our course toward Takin' It Back!

Agenda:
11 a.m.—Opening Remarks
12 noon—Question/Answer Session
1 p.m.–3 p.m.—Reception
Come for an hour
or stay for the entire event!


SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

WHEN
Wednesday
February 7, 2007

TIME
11:00 to 3:00

WHERE
Doubletree Guest Suites
16500 South Center Pkwy
Seattle, WA 98188

Parking
Complimentary self-parking

Transportation
Complimentary to/from hotel

B757200ER

You could start by asking Capt. Prater if he's going to sell out any ALPA pilot groups like his predecessor did.

X Rated

Oooh, I like that one! Ask him how soon he'll be paying us.

Aside from that, how about asking him if he intends to actually build comradarie between different ALPA groups instead of a "ain't happenin' to me" type of attitude. Fight vigorously for Mesaba, Comair, etc., to strike with the voiding of a contract by a bankruptcy court.

Ask him if the Union has any cajones left.

Does ALPA still have a chubby for the APA?

X Rated

captjns

A dog dish will be handed out to each individual if their ideas are implemented with ALPO, oops I mean ALPA.

CAL EWR

Jeffrey,

I worked my tail off spending four days a week for three over three and a half months in the CAL and CALEXP crew rooms in the Winter/Spring 2001 convincing our members to approve the proposed IACP/ALPA merger.

ALPA is what you make of it and if you elect good people and have good people support their elected leaders the chance for success is good.

John Prater is the person responsible for getting me involved in our union. When we were the IACP, I worked with John on the Strike Committee. Now John is our ALPA President and I support him 100%. Lets give him some time as he has much work to do.

Why the shot at ALPA?

mike734

The problem is not ALPA. (although they have problems like any organisation), the problem is the Railway Labor Act. This dinosaur is an anachronism and needs to go. It was enacted when the stopping of the railroad would be unacceptable to the country and commerce etc...Today, one airline stopping flying would not be a tremendous burden on the economy. Sure it would hurt. It is suppose to.

A union without the right to strike is almost useless. Airlines employees need the right to call a strike without govt. interference. That should be Praters "JOB ONE."

TheWagman

That's it!! You hit the nail on the head!

CAL EWR

The reason I responded to the writers post is because of his derogatory remarks toward my union and my union President. I worked my a$$ of getting ALPA on the CAL property. I know what it is like to work for a non union and independent union carrier.

I even know what it's like to work for an ALPA carrier with terrible incompetent leadership. I worked very hard to recall them but never would I want to get rid of ALPA. ALPA is what you make of it, you elect the best and brightest and have a unified group supporting them the sky is the limit. You elect weak leaders or don't have a unified pilot group then ALPA isn't worth much until the makeup of your MEC's demographics change.

All of this from a poster who I believe works for a non union carrier in a foreign country. Let me ask the poster what have you done in regards to helping your fellow pilots achieve better working conditions and protecting their careers?

My guess is nothing! Just like some (a small percentage shrinking every day) of my fellow pilots at Continental it's all about me!

B757200ER

You're not referring to me, by chance? If so, you're WAAY off base.

To repeat, if I had an audience with Prater, I'd ask him if he wanted his legacy to be like Woerth's, which was self-serving, union-dividing and job-destructing. Woerth's legacy of selling out 5-6 ALPA carriers is shameful, and the ALPA founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they knew what he did to long-serving ALPA members. Not only would Duane Woerth SELL his own MOTHER to cut a deal....he'd send her COD.

LAXFO

Hence, enters Capt. Prater......Time will tell. After Woerthless, I for one am a big pro vote for Prater. I'm giving him a chance.

LAXFO