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[Rez O. Lewshun]

Public opinion? I am using what FedEx MEC Chair DW said (We got out pilots hats and we got a the best contract) as my basis for public opinion.

If this is true why did it take so long for FEDEX pilots to get a contract? Under your reasoning day after first info picketing a contract should have been signed. Didn't happen. Try another reason.

Did it take FedEx so long to get a contract? What are your expectations? Are they true?

Again... HOW to get a good career seems to be a foreign concept to too many pilots. Getting hired at a career carrier isn't the end. It is only the beginning...

 

[Flybynite]

Here, I'll use your logic a little more. If you buy a hat you get a good contract, but if you wear a hat all the time you get a concessionary contract. Is that how the industry works? It's so simple.... if you're really that naive.

 

[Tarzan]

I hereby make motion to grant Rez the award of, "Single Handedly Keeping A Thread Alive Way Past The Point Which It Should Have Died."

All in favor............

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Here, I'll use your logic a little more. If you buy a hat you get a good contract, but if you wear a hat all the time you get a concessionary contract. Is that how the industry works? It's so simple.... if you're really that naive.

Not sure.... SWA uses pilot hats in thier TV ads to sell tickets...

 

[Flybynite]

Not sure.... SWA uses pilot hats in thier TV ads to sell tickets...

Ok, you win. Buy a hat, get a raise. Damn negotiating committees wasting all that time at the table.

 

[Palomino]

Beyond the hat? OK? Like how?

Prater? What do you hope in Prater?


I am wondering you guys really understanding how this career works. Sure you want the pay and work rules but when the HOW is explain to you, it's like trying to get a teenager to do his homework....

you misquoted me, Rez. if you're going to argue at least do it correctly.

what do I hope for in Prater? a guy that doesn't dress up every day as a politician. i have always seen Prater as a pilot first and a defender of his constituency. i have witnessed Prater's leadership directly. i believe in the guy. i lost a lot of faith in the current ALPA leadership. cry all you want...but Woerth did nothing to inspire me.

we disagree Rez. deal with it. you don't always win.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

you misquoted me, Rez. if you're going to argue at least do it correctly.

Not my intention. Plz explain so I can get back on track.

what do I hope for in Prater? a guy that doesn't dress up every day as a politician. i have always seen Prater as a pilot first and a defender of his constituency. i have witnessed Prater's leadership directly. i believe in the guy. i lost a lot of faith in the current ALPA leadership. cry all you want...but Woerth did nothing to inspire me.

I agree and disagree with you. A politician? Any guy who asks for votes is a politician. He has to convince guys to vote for him. Prater did that. Prater is a politician.. and if he wants to be successful in DC he will be every bit the politican. Prater was a pilot and is now a politician. The ALPA Prez is a politician who understands pilots.

Not sure why ALPA pilots don't realize this. Politics and legislation has everything to do with your career.

The current ALPA leadership.....did a poor job remaining connected with the membership, but DW was an excellent politcian and did a good job for us. He just failed to show the membership.

BTW Prater had a hat on his website photos.

we disagree Rez. deal with it. you don't always win.

If I disagree that means I don't win? Recall, I am just pointing out that SWA uses hats in their commericals, the FedEx MEC used hats to get THE BEST CONTRACT. Prater had a hat on his website. So how is that me?

It is not about me..rather us.. and our ability to defend the profession

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Ok, you win. Buy a hat, get a raise. dang negotiating committees wasting all that time at the table.

NC can't do much without a unifed pilot group.