EU Open Skies just approved thru CANADA, ALPA losses again!

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You there Rez, and PCL_128????

 

[luckytohaveajob]

Rez,
I agree with you and not with the original poster, at least ALPA is involved and trying to put pennies on the tracks of the oncoming freight train of cabotage.....


Unfortunately for ALPA, it has spent the last two decades so squarely alienating the junior pilots with the age 65 debacle, scope allowances, b scale, etc that a lot of pilots in their 30's and 40's don't trust anything that they say or do.
I know you will say it's the individual MEC's that vote for this stuff, but somehow the union has to become tougher nationally and say, if your contract doesn't match X for this plane, then you are not ALLOWED into the union. Then say, ALPA jumpseats are for ALPA pilots and take a stand. Only then will pilots stand up for being part of their union.

We do agree, but with a huge difference. I don't think ALPA has any intention in stopping cabatog or putting pennies on the track to stop the damage as you say. SWA's domestic only operations will be severely damaged.

ALPA will sell out the junior pilots again as ALPA has every time to make some small gain for those nearing retirement at the expense of the entire industry concerning cabatoge.

ALPA has thrown the junior pilots under the bus so many times in the last 15 years, I have lost count. ALPA will never do anything for the whole. ALPA calls it politics. I call it betrayal.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

We do agree, but with a huge difference. I don't think ALPA has any intention in stopping cabatog or putting pennies on the track to stop the damage as you say. SWA's domestic only operations will be severely damaged.

How does ALPA stop cabotage when the political machine, general public, special interests and corporations want it?

Putting the burden and responsibility on ALPA's shoulders is like expecting David without a slingshot to defeat Goliath....

ALPA will sell out the junior pilots again as ALPA has every time to make some small gain for those nearing retirement at the expense of the entire industry concerning cabatoge.

Maybe... if the junior pilots sit around and do nothing.... currently this is an invalid web address

www.juniorpilotsforchange.com

ALPA has thrown the junior pilots under the bus so many times in the last 15 years, I have lost count. ALPA will never do anything for the whole. ALPA calls it politics. I call it betrayal.

Agreed. Now what are the junior pilots going to do about it? Be sheep like they've been for 15 years?

Recall in ALPA's day First Officers only had 1/2 a vote.

If you want change for you, then you need to change.

During the last 15 years have the senior guys done much for the junior guys? Then why do you expect them to change? Is it fair to expect you to change?