IdRtherBsailing
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Trust your leadership.
I heard a wise man once say, "I trust my union only slightly more than I trust my company."
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Trust your leadership.
I heard a wise man once say, "I trust my union only slightly more than I trust my company."
Whoa, dude, you're mixing non-related things together. First, asking why money is needed when ALPA has a policy is like asking why presidential candidates raise money when it costs nothing (or next to nothing) to get on a ballot. It's just not enough. I'm not putting you down but now is not the time to be asking such questions. It's a simple fact that if you merge with another ALPA carrier you will need funds.then what is the point of having an official ALPA merger policy if it simply leads to pilots giving money to lawyers and you get the mess you have at Cactus versus Airways?
I almost agree with you. While relative senority is probably fair for most I just don't like the idea of any fixed integration formula because it fails to account for the vagaries of each merger.perhaps it is time to simply revisit and revise this policy (as it was revisited after the mergers in the mid 80's). a simple mathematical formula based on relative seniority seems the fairest to me (which the arbitrator at AWA/USAirways pretty much did).
Ha, I haven't heard about Head Case in a long while. Thanks for the wishes.if alpa national is truly shredding documents, then good luck with your lawsuit. i flew with the "head case" quite a bit at eagle and heard every day about the evils of mergers.
I agree that merger policy should be changed. The problem is that you and I would never agree on how to set a specific merger formula, and every other pilot would have their own idea also. You could never get enough people to agree on a fixed formula. For instance, you argue for ratio-based mergers, but I'm a strong advocate of pure DOH for all mergers. We would never agree on a new policy, so ALPA's current policy of taking each merger separately is probably the only way to go.better yet revise the merger policy and get ALL major unions on board: ALPA, APA, SWAPA, IPA, NPA, Teamsters, etc.
Are we that dumb that we need lawyers (one notch above airline management in the pecking order) to "assist" us?
And that man would be an idiot.
Everyone loves to hate attorneys.....until they need one for themselves.
Maybe, but a very wise idiot.