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[urflyingme?!]

In light of the recent ruling about Comair, and the continued contract 'negotiations'' at ASA, the pos ********************uation we have here at MESA and everything else going on right now, (pinnacle, mesaba, everybody else) it has come to my atention that unless you have pain, you won't have no gain.

We know about the RLA, we know about the process, and how we will most likely not see another airline strike for years.

Here's my idea.

Any severe job action will provide the company with financial repercussions far greater than any potential penalties for our unions. It will hurt, but it will hurt them less. Companies run roughshod over our CBA's daily, and we have to wait months and years for any recourse.

Bankrupt ALPA. Send every member a refund check.

The very next day we could have a unilateral nationwide strike, without any financial repurcussions. We're not getting anything done right now as it is. Let's spend big and then go big.

 

[John Pennekamp]

Have another drink...

 

[Tarzan]

The problem is not the union itself. The problem remains that as companies have adapted to the changing economic and political winds, the unions have not.

However, whoever thought up the idea about putting an ad in USA Today around the time we had all the weather was a stroke of genius. That is where the unions need to concentrate their efforts, at the grassroots level. The attitudes of the our paying apssengers need to affected as so as to affect change at the managment level. If this acheived at the grass roots level, the political winds may begin to blow in favor of the unions as well.

It's a big boat with a small rudder. It takes time to turn. Some of the things I've seen give me some hope.