WalterSobchak
Am I wrong?
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I'm pretty sure that is the second time you've questioned my citizenship and patriotism on this message board. You're a real piece of work, you know that? So, because I believe that you should get what you pay for, that makes me un-American? Sounds and smells like capitalism to me...which is synonamous with American. I love this country, will defend it to my death if I must...and for you, someone who doesn't know a farking thing about who I am, to question whether or not I am an American based solely on something I posted on a message board...I don't take too kindly to that at all. So, you sir, can kiss my fat, white, AMERICAN ass.You are unbelievable!
To sit there and defend apathy, coddle victimization and reject democracy... are you an American? TO believe that some else is responsible for your situation... unreal!
Face it, your talk of ALPA being this glorious utopian democracy amounts to little more than a pipe dream. You tell these pilots to "get involved in their careers"...yet, because of some serious past failures on the part of the contract negotiating arm of ALPA (weak local leadership or not, it's still ALPA), many pilots are working more than ever just to make ends meet. When the hell do you expect them to "participate in their careers"?...during their already little off time? THIS IS WHY THEY ARE PAYING UNION DUES...so that they have someone to represent them...so they don't have to worry about doing it themselves. Sure, those who have the time and the means to volunteer, should. However, it should not be an expectation.
Let's take a look at those ALPA National salaries again. Now, it would seem to me that those people are PAID to represent the membership. When they bypass the membership...like they appeared to have done with Age 65, as I understand it (and I readily admit, I may have completely misunderstood that situation)...what would you venture to guess the membership is going to think about how their needs are being addressed when they ARE vocal about something?
I've said it a million times, I speak for no one but myself. I am not "anti-union", per se. But I observe, I educate myself, and I have enough pilot friends...unionized and not...to know that there is a serious distrust of ALPA National right now. I know that a large percentage of ALPA represented line pilots deserve a helluva lot more than they are getting out of their representative body. Until ALPA can regain the trust of the line pilot...ALPA will continue to be a parody of itself.
And, frankly, until ALPA can act like a UNION and UNIFY it's membership with a National Senority List, they may as well quit calling themselves a union and just roll with something more along the lines of The Loose Association of Air Line Pilots Whom We Will Allow To Cut Each Other's Throats When The Going Get's Tough, So Long As The Lavish Lifestyles of Our National Leadership Is Not Disrupted.
I won't publicly question your loyalty to this country...but I will point this out:How embarrassing you people are...
You are quite possibly a much bigger embarrassment. I believe that one could argue that...with your tired, non-stop chest thumping, name calling, and reguritated rhetoric...you, PCL, and your ilk have likely driven more pilots away from ALPA than you've ever brought in.
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