Is ALPA Really Going To Allow This To Happen At UAL??

[eaglesview]

Wanna bet.....????


PHXFLYR

Anytime

 

[eaglesview]

Not sure what it is with you APA guys..... the reason pilots left ALPA in the 1950s was silly and ego based...

As long as APA stays indy our effectiveness is weakened. Let ALPA join the APA. I don't care what it is called. We need to be under one group....


I don't think you guys are the enemy... but I think we are doing ourselves wrong by not joinoing forces....

AA guys stay away. Do not come back as ALPA offers nothing to come back for. I can not wait to have the opportunity to vote them out. You would spend the rest of your career with a union in conflict with Eagle.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Here is another reason ALPA is much better than in house, like APA, SWAPA or USAPA...





Transportation Unions Challenge Policymakers to Break Cycle of Underinvestment

MIAMI, FL – Transportation union leaders met in their annual winter meeting and discussed their priority issues with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Leaders of the 32 unions that comprise the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, discussed transportation investment, safety and security issues, and forged an agenda for 2009.

“The Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO is one of our most important partners in rebuilding America’s transportation infrastructure,” Secretary LaHood said.
“We are on the threshold of a transformational era in transportation. We must craft a bold new programmatic and financing structure that will strengthen our economy and sustain our quality of life,” Chairman Oberstar said. “Transportation workers will again be where they have always been: on the front lines of this transformation.”

“America’s anemic economy is in need of serious job creation at a time when our transportation infrastructure is failing,” said Edward Wytkind, president of TTD. “With several key transportation bills to be updated in 2009, the stars are aligning to help break the cycle of underinvestment in America’s transportation system.”

Three important reauthorization bills – for the Federal Aviation Administration, Surface Transportation and Hazardous Materials – were discussed in detail, as well as “Buy America” policies. Policy statements were agreed to for each and are available at www.ttd.org. Highlights of the statements include:

Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Bill
Today’s airports are operating at capacity, radar-based air traffic control systems are outdated and the safety of our aviation system is potentially compromised. Low morale and high turnover have plagued the FAA ever since the Bush Administration abandoned the collective bargaining process with its workers. TTD applauds Chairman Oberstar and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Jerry Costello for the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009 (H.R. 915). The bill provides desperately needed investments in our aviation system and makes significant strides on modernization, safety and employee issues.

Priority issues that must be included in the final FAA legislation include:
• Fixing the broken collective bargaining system at the FAA;
• Implementing numerous safety provisions, such as OSHA protections for flight attendants, increased inspection and standards for foreign repair stations that service U.S. aircraft, reversing the staffing crisis at the FAA, and reforming flight and duty time to address dangerous fatigue;
• Clarifying that FedEx mechanics and truck drivers are not aviation workers despite the company’s lobbying battle to preserve the misclassification in order to remain union-free;
• Codifying rules on foreign control and ownership of U.S. airlines; and
• Funding modernization and airport improvement initiatives. <more>

“This legislation should close the book on eight years of Bush Administration mismanagement, under-investment and neglect of the aviation system,” Wytkind said.

 

[regionaltard]

Cue the inflatable rat. Stand by and watch it happen. Standard briefing.

 

[Turtle21]

Here is another reason ALPA is much better than in house, like APA, SWAPA or USAPA...

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[Rez O. Lewshun]

AHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHA!!

Recall when Sullenburger testifed before Congress he said, Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l. Not once, did he say USAPA or any variant of it.....