Colgan Fa's Get Ta!

[suupah]

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080328/0381374.html

ok i have my flack jacket on. fire away!:uzi:

 

[SiuDude]

United Steel Workers? April Fools!

 

[DrewBlows]

United Steel Workers? April Fools!

It's real, the press release is on the Pinnacle web site. The Steel Workers are a big union. Maybe pilots would be better off going with the Auto Workers?

 

[XJohXJ]

Well, not to be confused with Rez or PCL, but here goes:

The pilots would be best represented by staying with ALPA and getting personally involved with their own union. Volunteer to be on a committee, at the very least. ALPA is the sum of the pilots who show up to meetings and volunteer. What do you know, that's just like with any other democratic, participant based system.

Your union volunteers do their best to represent all of their memberships, but it's a h#ll of a lot easier to do so when more pilots are actually involved. If you don't feel well represented, show up and let your reps know, or run to be a rep, yourself.

If you want to improve ALPA, change ALPA, or just plain support ALPA, you have to show up and chip in (beyond just paying dues, although that certainly is part of it). ALPA can once again be very powerful (they certainly have been in the past), and are only limited by the efforts of the membership. Remember, you need unity to have strength. Unity is possible, but it does take effort.

(Here's a hint: if you're one of those "ALPA is not doing enough for me" types, while not doing something to support your own union, you are making it harder for ALPA to do anything for you.)

ALPA is not "them", ALPA is "us".

[/high-horse]

 

[B727FA]

United Steel Workers? April Fools!

Nope...that's the Bargaining Agent for them.

 

[TurboAWD]

The USW reps Pinnacle and Colgan FA's. They have serious problems at 9E and they rep Colgan FA's because mgmt didn't want AFA or PFA on the property. I suspect that TA is as bad or worse than the junk contract the 9E FA's have.

Turbo

 

[PCL_128]

Well, not to be confused with Rez or PCL, but here goes:

The pilots would be best represented by staying with ALPA and getting personally involved with their own union. Volunteer to be on a committee, at the very least. ALPA is the sum of the pilots who show up to meetings and volunteer. What do you know, that's just like with any other democratic, participant based system.

Your union volunteers do their best to represent all of their memberships, but it's a h#ll of a lot easier to do so when more pilots are actually involved. If you don't feel well represented, show up and let your reps know, or run to be a rep, yourself.

If you want to improve ALPA, change ALPA, or just plain support ALPA, you have to show up and chip in (beyond just paying dues, although that certainly is part of it). ALPA can once again be very powerful (they certainly have been in the past), and are only limited by the efforts of the membership. Remember, you need unity to have strength. Unity is possible, but it does take effort.

(Here's a hint: if you're one of those "ALPA is not doing enough for me" types, while not doing something to support your own union, you are making it harder for ALPA to do anything for you.)

ALPA is not "them", ALPA is "us".

[/high-horse]

Now you've done it. Joey Merchant will be along any minute to tell you that you're licking Prater's boots and waving ALPA pom-poms.

 

[Kream926]

somehow i think they will voe in anything...on the premonition that unions=more pay. at least thats what most that i worked with thought anyways

 

[temcgrew]

I think he meant to say

Colgan Fa's Get T&A!

 

[suupah]

I think he meant to say

Yeah i did put something to that effect originally. but then i edited it. but i knew someone would bring it up. T&A would have been bigger news.