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Old 12-11-2011, 04:44 AM
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Default Petition to end the Railway Labor Act ?

Are you interested in a petition to end the outdated railway labor act ?

With the Presidential election looming in the near future, just maybe it's possible to put an end to Managements negotiation tool,...the Railway Labor Act
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Old 12-11-2011, 04:58 AM
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Are you interested in a petition to end the outdated railway labor act ?

With the Presidential election looming in the near future, just maybe it's possible to put an end to Managements negotiation tool,...the Railway Labor Act
Won't really help much when the courts are so management-friendly, too.
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Are you interested in a petition to end the outdated railway labor act ?

With the Presidential election looming in the near future, just maybe it's possible to put an end to Managements negotiation tool,...the Railway Labor Act
I'd sign it in a heartbeat. Yet another thing we'd have to fight ALPA for though.

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I've always wondered why this isn't ALPA's number one agenda item. Seems to me, they would have more power without the RLA. It would give us more leverage.

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I've always wondered why this is ALPA's number one agenda item. Seems to me, they would have more power without the RLA. It would give us more leverage.
Did you mean: why ISN'T this ALPA's number one agenda item?

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I'd sign it in a heartbeat. Yet another thing we'd have to fight ALPA for though.

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Hey Carl. It's a bit cloudy today. Could you tell me why that is ALPA's fault too?

Also, my ankle hurts from jogging yesterday. I think that must be ALPA's fault as well. Please confirm.
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Hey Carl. It's a bit cloudy today. Could you tell me why that is ALPA's fault too?

Also, my ankle hurts from jogging yesterday. I think that must be ALPA's fault as well. Please confirm.
The major of dues paying ALPA pilots, who have been beaten down over the last few years, have begun releasing dangerous weather-altering chemtrails while enroute to their destinations throughout the United States. The toxic haze released from said chemtrails has the effect of both thickening and condensing cloud layers, thus giving the impression of a "cloudy" sky.

Furthermore, the chemicals themselves tend to be very heavy and difficult to carry. I can see many athletic-type injuries occurring while trying to carry said chemicals to work or by possibly loading said chemicals into the aircraft's chemtrail generator. If I was a betting man, I would say you sustained your ankle injury that way, as opposed to jogging.


What....you asked Carl, didn't you?
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy View Post
Hey Carl. It's a bit cloudy today. Could you tell me why that is ALPA's fault too?

Also, my ankle hurts from jogging yesterday. I think that must be ALPA's fault as well. Please confirm.

I think we'd have to fight ALPA to try to get rid of the RLA. Why hasn't ALPA made it an agenda item to get rid of their version of green kryptonite. I know, lasers are a bigger threat.
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Originally Posted by Pineapple Guy View Post
Hey Carl. It's a bit cloudy today. Could you tell me why that is ALPA's fault too?

Also, my ankle hurts from jogging yesterday. I think that must be ALPA's fault as well. Please confirm.
CAPA was able to use their political clout to schedule meetings to amend the RLA and section 1113C of the bankruptcy code. ALPA used their political clout to kill this meeting. Not aid CAPA's efforts, but kill those efforts.

That's what my comments are based on. You'll notice they had nothing to do with weather, or jogging.

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Originally Posted by Carl Spackler View Post
Did you mean: why ISN'T this ALPA's number one agenda item?

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You're right, too little checking on my part. Will fix. The ALPA crowd won't answer the question though.
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