SkyWest Pilots: At least pretend to care

[PCL_128]

The current requirements to sit in the right seat of a 121 cockpit are already too low....

Agreed. Now, how much wanna bet that Captain Rice and the rest of the National leadership agrees also?

This plan should be opposed and the requirements should be INCREASED, not decreased. Yet ANOTHER ALPA failure.....

How can there be a failure when there hasn't even been a proposed change yet? And an even more important question: why do I even waste my time talking with you?

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

The current requirements to sit in the right seat of a 121 cockpit are already too low.... This plan should be opposed and the requirements should be INCREASED, not decreased. Yet ANOTHER ALPA failure.....

jOE... congress creates laws. Not ALPA. Until you get this you will so far behind....

ALPA cannot fail for what it is not repsonsible for. the FAA is responsible for determining 121 requirement.

 

[JoeMerchant]

jOE... congress creates laws. Not ALPA. Until you get this you will so far behind....

ALPA cannot fail for what it is not repsonsible for. the FAA is responsible for determining 121 requirement.

Another cop out response from the Herndon KoolAid drinker....

Why did they support the Age 60 issue for so many years? What about flight time/duty time? What about one level of safety? Those are all FAA responsibilities.

Now with this issue, you say ALPA doesn't have any control? You wonder why ALPA PAC contributions are down?

I guess ALPA is more concerned with the real important stuff like LAHSO and flip flopping on the age 60 rule.

 

[Gandalf]

Vote? Why?

Vote? For what? Definitions:
Represent. Verb. "To act or speak on behalf of somebody or something.
To speak and act for somebody else in an official way."

Representation. Noun. "The fact or right of being represented by somebody, especially of having a member in a legislature with the power to vote or speak for an electorate."

Negotiation. Noun. "The reaching of agreement through discussion and compromise."

So let me get this straight...SAPA negotiated for this last contract with management....hmmm....No increases for the Bro - not that they work the hardest - 9 legs a day, 20 min legs with 18 min turns, a 1% increase on the 50 for 4 YEARS! - .25% a year. A 1% increase on the 70/90 with a block hour override that was WAY overdue - anyone remember the conditions of bringing the 70 on property - Empty Promises!

Oh yeah, where is Zoltar? Have any QOL issues been addressed lately?

WAY TO GO SAPA!!! To negotiate don't you need to start high and COMPROMISE to a middle point? To get a 1% raise for 4 years - what was the high mark that SAPA used to negotiate? 1.1%?

Inflation rises every year!

Inflation. Noun. "An increase in the supply of currency or credit relative to the availability of goods and services, resulting in higher prices."

A relative of mine works in health care industry - standard YEARLY raise 3% (Hey - to keep up with inflation) and above and beyond that for performance.

Check out the salary inflation calculator on inflationdata.com!

Binding. Adjective. "Creating a legal or moral obligation to do something, with no possibility of withdrawal or avoidance."

Hey, thats something we DON"T have. A binding contract, document, something that states that Party A is responsible for this and B for that. Here are the rules that BOTH sides must abide by. Nope - JA and company can make changes to whatever they like and we are along for the ride!

So, I ask again - why should I vote for a system in which I have no REAL representation.

So..I vote.....and candidate X (who REALLY DOES care about me and my needs, who REALLY DOES want to get things done, who REALLY DOES want to see GOOD THINGS for Skywest - because they DO!) goes to the SAPA meetings and voices my concerns, needs, wants and wishes to "the boys".

And.........."they" do what "they" want to do because at the end of the day - "they" can.