Airtran Union V.P. Abstains from Picket Vote

[scarlet]

That is what OBAMA did wasn't it...vote present over 160 times....NOT YES or NO but I am not sure which way to cover my a$$. WEAK......

Here again bash everything currently in place, but tell us what you would do as ALPA President for Airtran Pilots?????? Just as Obama does===everything is bad, OK I agree; what would you do? Did I tell you how bad things are? 908 days in office and no foreign visits to major countries=WHY??

 

[zman]

That is what OBAMA did wasn't it...vote present over 160 times....NOT YES or NO but I am not sure which way to cover my a$$. WEAK......

Here again bash everything currently in place, but tell us what you would do as ALPA President for Airtran Pilots?????? Just as Obama does===everything is bad, OK I agree; what would you do? Did I tell you how bad things are? 908 days in office and no foreign visits to major countries=WHY??

I tell you one thing, a loss of Medical department that no other insurance agency (harvey watt) even comes close to. I mean even if we maintain the current status of a union actually pretty much doing nothing (which NPA does) we would still be better off with ALPA. I mean seriously can anyone tell me anything that NPA has done recently other then allow management to chip away at our current contract with LOA's.

 

[ultrarunner]

For the love of friggin budda.....the S word has no frigging meaning AT ALL until such time as the union has been released to the 30-day cooling off period AND that 30 days has expired!

Geez...

the way these operations work, you're looking at another TWELVE months before that happens. Or am I wrong here...

Strike commitee??? C'mon! Hell, you run a better chance of...oh...never mind...

 

[airline#5]

Guess who will strike at Airtran...the industry lowest paid FO's!

 

[j41driver]

I mean even if we maintain the current status of a union actually pretty much doing nothing (which NPA does) we would still be better off with ALPA. I mean seriously can anyone tell me anything that NPA has done recently other then allow management to chip away at our current contract with LOA's.

100% agreed. Not to mention the benefits of ALPA Aeromedical, ALPA Air Safety and ALPA Legal. We'd be way better off...and pay lower dues.

 

[PCL_128]

We'd be way better off...and pay lower dues.

This is the part that I really don't get from the ALPA-haters around here. Even if you think the NPA is just fine and we don't need ALPA, your NPA dues are more than ALPA dues by a significant margin. A mid-seniority Captain pays about an extra $300 each year to the NPA than he would pay to ALPA. A mid-seniority FO pays about $150 more. And for what? Fewer services, fewer resources, and no results? This is ridiculous.