letter from retired AAA captain

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Incorrect...as usual. To be expected of ALPA cheerleaders.

My post was springboard for you to use the best of your cirtical thought... and example of critical thought is post 49 and 50.... not 48.

 

[PCL_128]

Incorrect...as usual. To be expected of ALPA cheerleaders.

Prove him wrong. Where is your objective analysis? Where are your answers to his questions? All we see from you is uncontrolled emotion. Such is typical of the anti-ALPA set.

 

[Tejas-Jet]

All the East and West guys will have an opportunity to vote on who they want to represent them.

Thats the democratic process at work.

If the majority of the combined ( East + West) pilots decide they want USAPA to be their bargaining agent...then they will also have an opportunity to vote on a constitution...

...again...the democratic process at work.

Best of luck to both groups eventually becoming one

 

[JoeMerchant]

Today, airline brands for both passenger and all-cargo operations have
developed elaborate strategies to get pilots who work for separate companies
with separate contracts and seniority lists to compete for work within the
brand on a "lowest-bid" basis. Of all the challenges vexing us in the first
years of the 21st Century, this may be the greatest.

The Bilateral Scope Impact Committee's report that went to the Executive
Board was embraced and acclaimed for good reason. It cut to the heart of the
matter and succinctly stated the obvious: job security and career
progression opportunities are two sides of the same coin. Against an airline
brand management strategy, only a counter strategy by the pilots within the
brand to deal with both issues together has any chance of succeeding.

If we want to stop erosion of ALPA pay standards, we must deal with job
security and career progression as a single issue. A combination of fences
and bridges will be required. If we accept the status quo, the race to the
bottom will continue.

If we stop pointing fingers and start joining hands, some group of pilots
within some brand will be the first to develop a prototype model that stops
the bleeding. It is said that "necessity" is the mother of invention. With
all the pain, with all the bloodshed within our ranks, we should have all
the "necessity" we need to invent something new to stop the whipsawing.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Who wrote it Joe?

 

[JoeMerchant]

Who wrote it Joe?

Do you agree with it? How are WE doing? How is ALPA doing?

You seem to like to answer with questions.....

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

It maybe one of the greatest... and I agree with it... I think brand scope has merit....

 

[JoeMerchant]

It maybe one of the greatest... and I agree with it... I think brand scope has merit....

....then what happened....why can't the greatest union implement it? It's kinda like Obama.....If you can't implement it....then you have a problem.....

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

....then what happened....why can't the greatest union implement it? It's kinda like Obama.....If you can't implement it....then you have a problem.....

Obviously you don't have all answers.....

but alpa still sucks..... right?

 

[JoeMerchant]

Obviously you don't have all answers.....

but alpa still sucks..... right?

.....ALPA can choose to start solving some of it's biggest problems, scope and mergers, or it can suffer the consequences......Lawsuits and decertification drives....The choice belongs to you ALPA cheerleaders....

Prove us wrong Rez....Go back to Herndon and change things....or not.....