USAPA sues some America West Pilots

[get2flyin]

Who? The Scab union that has no integrity or the disenfranchised AWA pilots?

Yep, the guys who threw ALPA under the bus are now saying get on board or get sued. Nice. Shows some real class.

 

[trainer8]

We've just been informed that the named plaintiffs has risen to (I believe) 18, with 1-100 John Doe's listed as additional plaintiffs.

I was asked to forward the following is information regarding a trust that has been set up for the separately named LCC pilots being sued by USAPA

CB, could you post what these 10 + 18 are being taken to court over.

T8

 

[PuffDriver]

We've just been informed that the named plaintiffs has risen to (I believe) 18, with 1-100 John Doe's listed as additional plaintiffs.

I was asked to forward the following is information regarding a trust that has been set up for the separately named LCC pilots being sued by USAPA:

AN URGENT APPEAL TO ALL AMERICA WEST PILOTS


As you know by now, the US Airline Pilots Association (“USAPA”) has filed a 49 page lawsuit against 16 former America West pilots who are now employed by US Airways in the United States District Court, Western District of North Carolina (Charlotte Division) claiming hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Other pilots have been identified in the lawsuit but have not been named as defendants.

USAPA intends to sue still other pilots. The lawsuit also refers to 100 John Does who also may be named as defendants. USAPA has pledged to take actions to change the seniority list produced by the Nicolau Panel and accepted by the Company to the detriment of former America West pilots.

As one of the named defendants targeted by USAPA, I have had to organize the financial defense of those not represented by AWAPPA.

Briefly, I was an Air Force pilot, Eastern Airlines pilot, and am currently a line Airbus captain. I have contributed hundreds of hours of my personal time, serving my Eastern and America West brothers and sisters on various committees and writing numerous reports and editorials. As a military and Eastern pilot, I learned to appreciate true professionalism, dedication, and commitment to each other. I suffered
through a devastating nine month strike “walking the line” at Eastern.

While everyone else sees the injustice of what is going on, we must defend ourselves! There ARE legitimate reasons why AWAPPA cannot represent us at this time. Therefore, we, the individual defendants must establish our own defense team and the cost may be high financially. The ten of us, “The Cactus 10”, who are not on the AWAPPA Board of Directors need your help! I have organized our legal defense with a highly regarded law firm in Phoenix and have
established a legitimate and accountable Trust Fund.

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT ALL AWA PILOTS MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO REDUCE THEIR RISK TO ANY FUTHER CLAIMS!

Resources are limited and we must conserve manpower and monies necessary to defend those currently listed and those that will be added. Should anyone else be served or contacted by USAPA’S legal department, immediately contact me and our lead attorney, Lat Celmins (of Margrave & Celmins PC, 480-994-2000).

Individual contributions of $100 or greater are encouraged to help the pilots defend themselves. Contributions can be sent to: AWA Pilots Legal Expense Trust.

The funds will be placed in an account for this
purpose at the following address:

“AWA PILOTS LEGAL EXPENSE TRUST”
3626 WEST GLASS LANE
PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85041

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN APPEAL FOR FINANCIAL HELP FROM THE INDIVIDUAL PILOTS SUED BY USAPA AND IS NOT IN ANY WAY ASSOCIATED WITH AWAPPA OR ITS OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS.

I hope you will realize how critical your financial support is to ALL of us. The company has abandoned us and we are all at risk. Just ask the sixteen of us and the others to come.

Sincerely,

Captain Ron Gabaldon

I realize that we all have a lot more stuff on our plates right now, but if any non-LCC pilots are interested in contributing to this fund it would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!

I look forward to the judgement against you and I hope they take it all the way to termination. You give Eastern pilots a bad name.

 

[Ocity]

CB, could you post what these 10 + 18 are being taken to court over.

T8

one of them is being sued for something he posted here on flightinfo...That's no joke. I'm completely serious.

Good Luck proving who posted what Scabs.

 

[eaglesview]

Yep, the guys who threw ALPA under the bus are now saying get on board or get sued. Nice. Shows some real class.

ALPA threw themselves under that bus and several others. As far as getting sued goes; one would think that if you have enough intelligence to get your airline job you have enough intelligence to know when you are breaking the law. I don’t feel sorry for them.

 

[Ocity]

ALPA threw themselves under that bus and several others. As far as getting sued goes; one would think that if you have enough intelligence to get your airline job you have enough intelligence to know when you are breaking the law. I don’t feel sorry for them.

Just because the bunch of impotent FO's that run USAPA ALLEGE that some pilots broke the law, doesn't make it true. It does however, speak volumes as to the character and true intent of this psuedo union is.

Innocent until PROVEN guilty.

 

[8vATE]

Who? The Scab union that has no integrity or the disenfranchised AWA pilots?

Yea right.

A duly elected union conforming to all RLA laws.

You need to deal with reality and put your anger in to something more productive.

 

[trainer8]

one of them is being sued for something he posted here on flightinfo...That's no joke. I'm completely serious.

Good Luck proving who posted what Scabs.

If that is true, could you reference the post here in this thread.

T8

 

[PCL_128]

Cactusboy, thanks for posting that info. Any chance that you guys can set up a Paypal account to receive donations? I'll be happy to contribute, but that would make it much easier.

 

[Ocity]

Yea right.

A duly elected union conforming to all RLA laws.

You need to deal with reality and put your anger in to something more productive.

You're simply guessing that they've conformed to all RLA laws. The impending DFR lawsuit, that is getting easier to prove by the day, is just waiting for those morons to introduce section 22 during negotiations.

Then we'll see whose conforming to the law. The Nic. award process was legal, agreed to, final and binding. There is no doubt about that. Therefore, your smug statement of "Duly elected" doesn't mean crap to me. This game can go both ways.