AA717driver
A simpler time...
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- Mar 27, 2003
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Yeah, I've been beating up on ALPA at AirTran and I'll take any opportunity to rough up my favorite union gofer, Rez but here's a perfect example of ALPA being MIA:
Sully gave our profession a huge boost with his comments about the future of aviation and his self-effacing denial that he did anything special. I had hoped we could capitalize on the incredible press the pilot profession received out of this.
Instead of hearing about the latest "drunken pilot", this was a golden opportunity (better than Blago's Senate seat, IMO) to right many of the misperceptions about the deterioration of our pay, retirement and working conditions since the 1990's.
What do we get? Silence. Nothing from ALPA, APA or any other independent union.
The unions should have had people on all the talk shows, cable news channels--even local news in the larger markets. The public was hungry--no, starving for information on how this miracle happened.
WE made it happen. Sully, to his credit, pitched us a hanging curve right out over the plate. It would have been like a 'roided up Bonds playing t-ball.
We didn't just swing and miss. We didn't even suit up.
We could have used our PAC money, MCF money--hell, take an assessment but get the ads out there on the networks, cable news, the USA Today, WSJ, Times. Just get our viewpoint in front of a malleable public.
I can't be the only one to have thought about this.
Where were the unions?
TC
Sully gave our profession a huge boost with his comments about the future of aviation and his self-effacing denial that he did anything special. I had hoped we could capitalize on the incredible press the pilot profession received out of this.
Instead of hearing about the latest "drunken pilot", this was a golden opportunity (better than Blago's Senate seat, IMO) to right many of the misperceptions about the deterioration of our pay, retirement and working conditions since the 1990's.
What do we get? Silence. Nothing from ALPA, APA or any other independent union.
The unions should have had people on all the talk shows, cable news channels--even local news in the larger markets. The public was hungry--no, starving for information on how this miracle happened.
WE made it happen. Sully, to his credit, pitched us a hanging curve right out over the plate. It would have been like a 'roided up Bonds playing t-ball.
We didn't just swing and miss. We didn't even suit up.
We could have used our PAC money, MCF money--hell, take an assessment but get the ads out there on the networks, cable news, the USA Today, WSJ, Times. Just get our viewpoint in front of a malleable public.
I can't be the only one to have thought about this.
Where were the unions?
TC