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I know DW and I have asked him about what he thinks. He is endorsing the coalition of 4. He has good things to say about LJ.

I know him also and he would never make a statement like that unless he was just jerking your chain. DW is not a union member and he clould not care less who is in office for ALPA.

LJ left her management position because she was going to be removed from it. She was trying to do the job via her cell phone from her boat and got caught being AWOL too many times. Her track record in management was as bad as her track record for ALPA. She is all about LJ and JB and everyone else is just an object to be used and discarded.
 
Does anyone have the union version of what's currently going on with ASAP? It seems there's always two sides to everything around here.

Management made a total mockery of ASAP. They were under tremendous pressure from Delta to get the program in place but they would only sign a Comair style ASAP MOU. Delta ALPA was being pushed to sign the same type MOU as well. Delta ALPA refused as ASA had earlier rufused. The ASAP program requires trust in Management to do the right thing. Management wants Mary Larson to run the program. She is like LJ in that she is only committed to herself and can't be trusted behind closed doors.

Delta ALPA finally got their MOU signed but had some issues that almost caused it to withdraw MEC support. It requires a good working relationship with a management that is trustworthy. So how much do the ASA pilots trust this management? JA wants ASA to have an ASAP program because the FAA is pushing for it. Well he better clean house at ASA or he will be waiting a long time. An ASAP program with the current ASA management would be a total disaster at ASA. I have been at ASA over 20 years and would never self disclose via the program as long as we have a management who lies and deceives as a way of doing business.
 
Anyone that's just after a signing bonus certainly won't get a vote from me.

So far, WF is the only one that I know of that's been open about his opinions in these matters. Whether he's "short-fused" or not, retro is my #1 priority!

Retro Pay is a joke and a pipe dream......You might as well wish in one hand and S*&T in the other. We should have gone on strike 2 years ago to stop this 4 year circus. It's OUR fault for LETTING negotiations take this long. We are not entitled to retro- we didn't take the hard line when we should have.

(Waiting patiently for insult rather than logic)...................
 
I talked to a member of the safety committee about this. He said that the company has now agreed to everything the union wants in the ASAP program. However the union is still refusing. He supports ALPA, but can't understand why the union won't agree to the ASAP now.

Sureeeeeeeeee you did, you management weenie!

VOTED IN FAVOR!
 
The union did right by not signing an ASAP letter that was anything beyond the FAA boilerplate. However, it is true the company capitulated and the union still will not sign. If you believe there is still justification for not signing I am afraid you are not thinking through this clearly. ASAP should not be used as a negotiating tool. You may need the program yourself and not have it available. Safety and the protection of our tickets should not be a negotiating tool.
 
The ASAP program requires trust in Management to do the right thing. Management wants Mary Larson to run the program. She is like LJ in that she is only committed to herself and can't be trusted behind closed doors.quote]

Don't even get me started about that crazy bi-atch! Just be glad she doesn't fly the line.
 
We should have gone on strike 2 years ago to stop this 4 year circus. It's OUR fault for LETTING negotiations take this long.

(Waiting patiently for insult rather than logic)...................

Learn about the process junior.
 
The union did right by not signing an ASAP letter that was anything beyond the FAA boilerplate. However, it is true the company capitulated and the union still will not sign. If you believe there is still justification for not signing I am afraid you are not thinking through this clearly. ASAP should not be used as a negotiating tool. You may need the program yourself and not have it available. Safety and the protection of our tickets should not be a negotiating tool.

That's what I heard also. There were some ligitimate concerns at first. However the company has agreed to the union's concerns. Politics is more important than safety.
 
The union did right by not signing an ASAP letter that was anything beyond the FAA boilerplate. However, it is true the company capitulated and the union still will not sign. If you believe there is still justification for not signing I am afraid you are not thinking through this clearly. ASAP should not be used as a negotiating tool. You may need the program yourself and not have it available. Safety and the protection of our tickets should not be a negotiating tool.

You can't have protection of your ticket when you have a management that can't be trusted to manage an ASAP program properly. I would never file an ASAP report at ASA. They are incompent and will misuse the program. Your career would be better served trusting the FAA than this management. File a NASA report and forget ASAP until we get rid of this group of management buffons.
 
That's what I heard also. There were some ligitimate concerns at first. However the company has agreed to the union's concerns. Politics is more important than safety.

If you are so concerned about safety why don't you quit. That should make this a safer company by removing someone who can't think for themselves. Before you leave make sure you have Scott remove his hand from inside your body DUMMY.
 
If there is a trust problem at ASA, it will be there after the new elections. It does not matter who is elected someone will have something negative to say about them. If someone is proactive they will be labelled a kissass. If someone else is apathetic they will be labelled, disinterested. Seriously though, there is an anger in many of the ASA pilots because they do not trust anyone. They do not trust old management, new management, Skywest Management, MEC, LEC or their chief pilots. In this envirnonment there will never be a resolution.

The reason that flightinfo is so popular with ASA pilots is that the accountibility of that anger is zero on this message board. Yes there is an ALPA board, however they cannot descent from the ALPA position. The problem is many of the ASA pilots will say one thing in the crew room and on the phone interviews and another at their kitchen tables.

The ASAP program is a great program, too bad ASA does not have it.
 
If there is a trust problem at ASA, it will be there after the new elections. It does not matter who is elected someone will have something negative to say about them. If someone is proactive they will be labelled a kissass. If someone else is apathetic they will be labelled, disinterested. Seriously though, there is an anger in many of the ASA pilots because they do not trust anyone. They do not trust old management, new management, Skywest Management, MEC, LEC or their chief pilots. In this envirnonment there will never be a resolution.

The reason that flightinfo is so popular with ASA pilots is that the accountibility of that anger is zero on this message board. Yes there is an ALPA board, however they cannot descent from the ALPA position. The problem is many of the ASA pilots will say one thing in the crew room and on the phone interviews and another at their kitchen tables.

The ASAP program is a great program, too bad ASA does not have it.

Truer words could not have typed. When it comes to complainning, pilots can rival soldiers in that department except the soldiers usually have valid gripes; food, getting shot at, away from home for months at a time, cot to sleep on if your lucky.......

Pilots..... Most of you guys don't know how good you really have it. The most disgruntled among you started flying young and don't know anything else so of course this job just blows {sic}.

Are there issues? Of course, that goes for any job, thats why they pay you (albeit poorly sometimes) but it's the bed we made for ourselves. Cope with it and quit looking for the negative. It just makes your job and those around you, miserable.

ASAP is a good program. Never had to use it before but it's nice to have for legit goofs.
 
The ASAP program requires trust in Management to do the right thing. Management wants Mary Larson to run the program. She is like LJ in that she is only committed to herself and can't be trusted behind closed doors.quote]

Don't even get me started about that crazy bi-atch! Just be glad she doesn't fly the line.


Ha! No kidding.
 
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Interesting strategy for a campaign. If we don't get what we want, we will quit. I don't think this coalition will be getting many votes.

Alec Baldwin stated that if Bush won, he'd leave the country. I sent him a buddy pass, but....

Faruzzi makes my stomach hurt.
 
I know of two pilots that participated in the dispatchers ASAP fillings. Everything went as advertised and they did not suffer FAA discipline. They were both happy with the results. This blanket statement of "we can not trust management" is getting tiresome.

Keep in mind that we want to make the most possible and management wants to pay us the least possible. In between is where negotiation takes place. This is true of most things in life and should not be taken personal. While some say we have incompetent management those same people say we deserve contract improvements since we are the most profitable regional in the industry. Management must be worth something to the shareholders since we "are the most profitable regional in the industry". However you slice it we want to be paid more and they want to pay us less. We both are doing our respective jobs and must find a way to coexist.
 
Copydat- good assessment. I couldn't agree more with this. Personally, I think we ought to start working more as a team for the future- were gonna have to if we are to survive........Just watch what happens when Delta exits bankruptcy. I smell a large Boeing order that will replace alot of regional flying. It's gonna be survival of the fittest for regional flying. after 2007. Just watch........
 

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