96% of TSA pilots vote YES to strike

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Yeah, nevermind the '89 EAL strike, the '98 NWA strike, the '01 CMR strike, or the '05 MSA near-strike. You don't really know your airline or ALPA history very well, do you?

Oh, a NEAR STRIKE in '05!!! Oh My!!
The CMR wasn't really a strike. The pilots threatened to strike and set a date. Management shut the doors on them, the pilots started picketing the nest day, calling it a strike.
EAL did strike, some guys crossed the lines, one in particular started his own airline called Gulfstream International. You decided to pay that man $30k a year to sit in the right seat of a King Air.

 

[Hamburger]

EAL did strike, some guys crossed the lines, one in particular started his own airline called Gulfstream International. You decided to pay that man $30k a year to sit in the right seat of a King Air.

Doh!

 

[flyboyzii]

My point wasn't to nail a date. It was to nail a sentiment.

As for Comair, yes they struck, and good for them, and where are they now? About to get their balls cut off and their "industry leading" contract still sucks balls. Truck drivers have better work rules than regional pilots. If you're going to strike, at least make it worth it in the end. That's where ALPA lost it.

With all of ALPA's bark (one for the gipper!) there is an awful lack of bite.

Everyone is sitting here talking about bombarding your congressmen with letters. Isn't that ALPAs job? Shouldn't they be organizing something? Shouldn't they be constantly in the media as interviewees for CNN and FUX news? Shouldn't they be lobbying Congressmen (doesn't everyone else? Ever heard of the NRA?)? Where the heck is Prater anyway?

ALPA doesn't know the first thing about effective lobbying (somebody get Prater a copy of "Lobbying for fcking retards"). It takes more than a groomed 80's gay-porn moustache and shaking hands.

And for the rest of you, the Republican party is NOT on your side. And for the rest of you imbeciles who voted for John McCain, only read the document where he complains that pilots are ruining the industry because they are greedy, overpaid and underworked. He was talking about your sorry dumba--es.

If you want to be effective and fix this "problem" that the senior generation started to begin with, you need to be a little more in tune with reality. ALPA is just not politically savvy enough to make a difference. Younger, more energetic guys in the top positions could help make a difference. Seniority works for some things. Not others.

First of all, that chicky in your avatar is gorgeous and I think I truely love her.

Second, NO POLITICIAN is ANYONES friend except their own. They only look out for number 1...period. They don't care about you, me or anyone else. All they care about is getting elected then re-elected to keep that gubment cash cow with all the benefits that come with it.

 

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First of all, that chicky in your avatar is gorgeous and I think I truely love her.

Second, NO POLITICIAN is ANYONES friend except their own. They only look out for number 1...period. They don't care about you, me or anyone else. All they care about is getting elected then re-elected to keep that gubment cash cow with all the benefits that come with it.

Um, not true. Obama truely does love union workers. It's because they're so damn niave to believe the crap they say, and will vote for them.
Just ask all those union workers at GM and Chrysler. He helped them all......out of a job. He didn't defend anything for them. He sold them down the river.
Now these politicians have these ALPA monkeys drooling, because they think there are going to become some changes due to this Colgan crash. These morons don't understand that the gubberment can't tell the airlines how much to pay their employees. They can't change the flight and duty times that the FAA and ALPA have been fighting so hard to keep over the last 40 years.

 

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You're obviously not aware of what ALPA does on the Hill.

Ooooh! "On the Hill" !!! Wow, does that make ALPA an official association because they're "on the Hill"?????
What do they do "on the Hill"?? Is this where they "Take it to the mat"?
You still never explained what ALPA does when they "take it to the mat".

Are you ready to take it to the mat, twinkle toes?

 

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These morons don't understand that the gubberment can't tell the airlines how much to pay their employees.

The guberment can release a group for a strike. There is no way gov is going to regulate pay as you've said but they sure do have a say in an outcome of a dispute between labor and management. Long live Obama! Praise him!

 

[Browntothebone]

Oh, a NEAR STRIKE in '05!!! Oh My!!
The CMR wasn't really a strike. The pilots threatened to strike and set a date. Management shut the doors on them, the pilots started picketing the nest day, calling it a strike.
EAL did strike, some guys crossed the lines, one in particular started his own airline called Gulfstream International. You decided to pay that man $30k a year to sit in the right seat of a King Air.

So.... He's at a major now! Isn't that all that really matters? Isn't making it to a major everyone's goal?

 

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So.... He's at a major now! Isn't that all that really matters? Isn't making it to a major everyone's goal?

Haha! Now that's some funny stuff right there.