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November 21, 2008
ALPA IS NOT A QUICK FIX
Dear Colgan Pilot:
Many of you have never been involved with a union before and may wonder what it
would actually mean to you and the Company if ALPA wins the election. A number of you have
been told by ALPA supporters that you will get higher wages and other improvements if you
vote for ALPA. That is not necessarily the case. The Company is only under an obligation to
bargain in good faith with ALPA if it wins the election. This means you might get more than
what you presently have the same as what you presently have, or less than what you presently
have. ALPA can not guarantee you any improvements.
A number of our pilots are under the impression that ALPA would immediately achieve
gains for the Colgan pilots if they are elected. This also is not true. The average time for
achieving contracts in these examples was 24 months.
Pinnacle started negotiations with ALPA in the summer of 2004 to amend its contract. It
has now been over four years and there still is no contract at Pinnacle. The reason is that
ALPA’s economic demands at Pinnacle have been so unreasonable that the company has not
been able to agree to a new contract. We do not know how long it would take for Colgan and
ALPA to reach a contract. It would depend on the positions of both ALPA and the Company at
the bargaining table
These are the facts. We hope you will consider these points in the upcoming election.
The Above was another item my email provider labeled as junk... aka a memo from Buddy Casey... CEO of Colgan.
To all of you at PCL... Keep the faith! You have my support!
As far as Buddy's bull$hit.... sitting at a table bargaining in good faith is more then you have done so far... more then that slap in the face pilot group you started last year... which hasn't been updated the website...in Ummmm 11 months...
We most certinaly won't be working for less, oh... and if you think for one second that the PCL pilots will put up with this $hit over here, by "wanting our flying"... you are sadly mistaken. They have it better then we do now, they aren't going to go backwards!
Oh... yea ONE LAST THING! 99% That's a fact you can't ignore!
We will see at the table BUDDY!
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ALPA IS NOT A QUICK FIX
Dear Colgan Pilot:
Many of you have never been involved with a union before and may wonder what it
would actually mean to you and the Company if ALPA wins the election. A number of you have
been told by ALPA supporters that you will get higher wages and other improvements if you
vote for ALPA. That is not necessarily the case. The Company is only under an obligation to
bargain in good faith with ALPA if it wins the election. This means you might get more than
what you presently have the same as what you presently have, or less than what you presently
have. ALPA can not guarantee you any improvements.
A number of our pilots are under the impression that ALPA would immediately achieve
gains for the Colgan pilots if they are elected. This also is not true. The average time for
achieving contracts in these examples was 24 months.
Pinnacle started negotiations with ALPA in the summer of 2004 to amend its contract. It
has now been over four years and there still is no contract at Pinnacle. The reason is that
ALPA’s economic demands at Pinnacle have been so unreasonable that the company has not
been able to agree to a new contract. We do not know how long it would take for Colgan and
ALPA to reach a contract. It would depend on the positions of both ALPA and the Company at
the bargaining table
These are the facts. We hope you will consider these points in the upcoming election.
The Above was another item my email provider labeled as junk... aka a memo from Buddy Casey... CEO of Colgan.
To all of you at PCL... Keep the faith! You have my support!
As far as Buddy's bull$hit.... sitting at a table bargaining in good faith is more then you have done so far... more then that slap in the face pilot group you started last year... which hasn't been updated the website...in Ummmm 11 months...
We most certinaly won't be working for less, oh... and if you think for one second that the PCL pilots will put up with this $hit over here, by "wanting our flying"... you are sadly mistaken. They have it better then we do now, they aren't going to go backwards!
Oh... yea ONE LAST THING! 99% That's a fact you can't ignore!
We will see at the table BUDDY!
V1