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FAA wants NO DISTRACTIONS for pilots
Yep, my balls are huge, my $%^& is big, I don't need no autopilot. Come on YIP, put on your management hat. What do you employ pilots to accomplish? I'll tell you, you employee pilots to get an airplane and it's cargo safely from place to place. We don't get because we are the worlds finest hand... -
FAA wants NO DISTRACTIONS for pilots
Get rid of autopilots and altitude bust will go through the roof, nav errors will increase, landing accidents will multiply etc, -
Spirit #) day cooling off period ...
Unless you are a 2%'r, and you obviously are not, then you want to strike. You and I were a part of the 98% who authorized the strike. You can't log on here with credibility, or without undermining the effort, and make the statement that none of us want to strike. I would counter, just to... -
Spirit #) day cooling off period ...
The NMB is a government bureaucracy. The 98% strike vote, taken well before the NMB believed an impasse existed, only served to show the NMB that a strike was our only strategy. The NMB's job is strike prevention. Any other interpretation of the RLA is a fantasy. The NMB's business is keeping... -
Spirit #) day cooling off period ...
I've already written my reason, so there is no reason to not post it again. "now is not the time to be posting unsubstantiated rumors that run counter to the official position." -
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Spirit #) day cooling off period ...
BYM and boomlrd. Please shut up. You are undermining the MEC. I am in contact with a P2P volunteer and am being assured that the Union has NO information. My contact spoke to the P2P chair specifically about this rumor and P2P assures him that (again) they have NO data. Period. The MEC... -
Deadlock Ending on Labor Board
You are correct. The RLA is governed by the National Mediation Board (NMB) not the NLRB. But the tide is turning. We shall see. -
If/When Spirit Strikes
That is correct. But let's be more specific. The previous negotiating committee HAD TA's (signed by both parties) in all sections except pay, duration and scheduling. We had a handshake on PB with the VP Ops, but were never able to get it put down on paper. (the words they put on paper didn't... -
Spirit Pilot Contract Negotiantions end: Strike loms
First, the leadership hasn't asked. Second, everybody wants somebody else to take the bullet. -
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Spirit Pilot Contract Negotiantions end: Strike loms
The RLA protects the American transportation system and therefore the American economy. The Federal Court system screws us by siding with management. Bankruptcy Courts really screw us. ALPA screws us because National is scared of being held liable for our actions. All we can do is stand together... -
If/When Spirit Strikes
Aircobra, All the problems you lay at ALPA's feet are the result of the law. The RLA was specifically written for the railroads and specifically intended to prevent a transportation stoppage. Everything is long and drawn out because the FedGov wants it that way. ALPA is playing the game in the... -
If/When Spirit Strikes
It's not conservatism. He's into corporatism, or maybe he's a NEOCon. I'm conservative, he's not. -
If/When Spirit Strikes
Mike, please. I know you and I know you know better. The RLA gives us at least the following two protections. Grievance procedures that force the company to prove (in a court of law) charges against you. This effectively gives us a defense against unreasonable/arbitrary firing and/or... -
If/When Spirit Strikes
The Spirit ALPA Contract has passed its amendable date, nothing more. We still have a contract and full RLA protection. We don't agree to a "steaming pile" company proposal. Simple. We keep talking. Striking is NOT a negotiating tool. Striking is a statement of labors choice to resign rather... -
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If/When Spirit Strikes
Aircobra, I once believed as you do. Then my little "flying club" airline was acquired by people interested in IPO's not airline Ops. Somewhere along the way, I lost the desire to do anything to help them make more money. I do my job in a professional manner; I save fuel, take care of my... -
If/When Spirit Strikes
Spirit can NOT shut FL down. It will take SWAPA, APA, ALPA and the Teamsters. If you can arrange for every pilot group to refuse our struck work, we will all win. Until then, in our deregulated world, strikes only give up market share. I support our strike if called, but I believe we have more... -
Get Your Stuff Out Of Seatback Pocket Pronto!
I heard this one time. On a SWA flight out of BWI about two years ago, C FA went nuts about it. The other FA's were ignoring her. I've never heard it since. Until now. -
Post 13000
Leave him alone, every forum needs someone to work and keep it going. I've been a part of too many forums that "play nice" and most of them die off from lack of interest. He keeps it interesting, or at least going. :beer: -