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Originally Posted by bozobigtop
Just a precursor for airlines and other industries running afoul of management's will and determination to crush employees resolve. I say we see cabotage in the U.S. in less than 10 years.
I agree, but first you have to ask, who writes the rules that right now, prevent it? And who can write a New Rule, or strike out a line or two in the old rules, to allow it?
Congress.
And who pays Congress to write rules, beneficial to themselves, through re-election campaign contributions?
Airline CEO's and Foriegn Governments, washing the money, through the 42,000 registered Lobbiest, some of whom actually write the legislation.
Like Deep Throat said a long time ago, "Follow the Money".
Which lobby gives more money to Congress, ALPA or the Airlines For America (used to be the Airline Transport Association)? Here's their BOD:
http://airlines.org/Pages/Board-of-Directors.aspx
A4A outspends ALPA in political contributions by a factor of about 10 to 1.
Why do you think there was a "Cargo Cutout" in the new duty time and rest rules?
The National Mediation Board told the DAL MEC just about a year ago, that we would not be allowed to strike if we asked for 'too much' in contract negotiations. They said they would do to us, what they did to the APA; park us for 4 years or so, with no movement. That's why we settled for such a small contract, and even allowed bigger RJ's. At leats we recovered some of our outsouced flying, I hope the Com Air guys get hired to fly it.
What we have here is the Best Government Money CAN BUY. The problem for airline pilots is, we don't have enough money to buy enough politicians.
08-22-2015
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