Want to keep your job....

[afroman]

If you want to keep your job, get off yor a s s and contact your US Senator regarding this:


Welcome to ALPA FastRead for November 3, 2003

U.S. House of Representatives Adopts FAA Reauthorization Conference Report; ALPA
Urges Members to Contact Their Senators to Oppose Legislation

On Thursday, October 30, 2003, the U.S. House of Representatives on a largely
partisan vote of 211 to 207 adopted the Conference Report on the FAA
Reauthorization Bill. The Conference Report is now pending in the U.S. Senate
and could be scheduled for a vote at any time in the next few weeks. ALPA is
working vigorously to defeat the legislation in its present form, which includes
a provision on cargo cabotage. The legislation, if passed with this provision,
would have grave consequences for the professional future of U.S. airline
employees.

The provision would change longstanding U.S. law and policy on cabotage that
requires that the transportation of passengers and cargo in domestic markets be
done on U.S. air carriers, by allowing cargo cabotage through Anchorage via a
code-share agreement. For example, the provision would allow Air China, the
national carrier for the People's Republic of China, to pick up cargo brought
into Anchorage from Tokyo by Northwest Airlines and transport it to New York.
However, it does not grant any reciprocal rights for U.S. carriers. ALPA's
President, Capt. Duane Woerth, in a letter to the House of Representatives,
urged members to oppose the Conference Report, saying, "...the [cargo cabotage]
provision is the first step toward the shipment of U.S. airline jobs overseas"
and would be detrimental to the overall health of our domestic airline industry.

ALPA members can take action as well by contacting their senators to urge them
to oppose adoption of the Conference Report.

ACTION ALERT
ALPA asks all members to contact their senators today urging them to oppose
adoption of the Conference Report on the FAA Reauthorization Bill in its present
form. Go to the ALPA website-www.alpa.org-and sign on to the ALPA Members'
Portal Page with your password. Click on the ACTION ALERT icon and follow the
directions from there to send your messages to your senators. Let them know that
their vote against the Conference Report on the FAA Reauthorization Bill is
critical to protecting U.S. airline jobs-specifically, U.S. pilots' jobs-from
exportation overseas.

 

[vclean]

Sent my message via ALPA's Action Alert program. We cannot allow cabotage to start in any form, otherwise it will open the gates to outsourcing jobs and economic security.

 

[avratdwc]

I am not an alpa member yet, however, I am going to be calling, does anyone have any other info on this piece of legislation. Name, day when vote will take place etc?

Avrat

 

[Capn Lucky]

This is so scary. This is a wetdream for so many CEO's. Imagine foreign crews flying in the US for next to nothing. This sounds like the first step.

 

[JohnDoe]

Instead of wasting time in this forum complaining about Delta mainline screwing you, or Mesa screwing you, or scabs screwing you, or whatever......EVERY 121 pilot on this board needs to use that time to write their senators about this cabatoge issue.

If this passes, this will screw us ALL more than anything else we complain about.

It may just be cargo out of one city right now, but once the camels nose is in the tent, it will only be a matter of time before foreign carriers are flying throughout our country.

Once you go after the foreign competition, you can resume going after each other's throats.........

 

[dogman]

Every pilot that looks at any one of these boards needs to have there voice heard. This could be just the tip of a bad iceberg.

 

[belchfire]

Will someone please post a bill number
so that we know what we are talking
about when we call the senators and
reps???

 

[dogman]

FAA Reauthorization Bill, H.R. 2115.

Check out all the info at alpa.org

 

[cargoflyr69]

For those of us that are not ALPA how can we see this bill and respond electronically?

 

[stillaboo]

PLEASE DO THIS

For non-ALPA members got to:
http://www.senate.gov/

Then, contact you respective senators (they all have e-mail links on their pages. If you can navigate 'flightinfo', then you can handle it.

I believe a link to the resolution is found here:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:h.r.2115:

Here is a suggested message for non-ALPA members. You can just copy it and paste it as your message (hit 'Ctrl C' to copy, 'Ctrl P' to paste):



I am writing to urge you to oppose passage of the Conference Report on the FAA Reauthorization Bill, H.R. 2115, in its present form. While the Bill contains authorization for many necessary programs to modernize and upgrade our nation’s air transportation system, it includes several provisions that I as a pilot strongly oppose.

The provision that most concerns me and my fellow pilots would change longstanding U.S. law and policy on cabotage that requires that the transportation of passengers and cargo in domestic markets be done on U.S. air carriers. It would allow foreign airlines to carry cargo between an Alaskan gateway airport, presumably Anchorage, and another U.S. airport provided that the cargo was being shipped internationally into or out of Alaska. For example, it would allow Air China, the national carrier for the People’s Republic of China, to pick up cargo brought into Anchorage from Tokyo by Northwest Airlines and transport it to New York. The provision does not grant any reciprocal rights for U.S. carriers in China, nor can it be expected that the Chinese government would agree to allow such operations by U.S. carriers in their vast domestic markets. Such a one-sided concession to China and other foreign countries is a further illustration of the exportation of U.S. jobs, in this case pilot jobs, that is detrimental to our nation’s economy and, in this case, to our domestic airline industry and its employees.

I understand that Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and others will be opposing this bill on the Senate floor, and I urge you to support his efforts. I support passage of legislation that addresses the real infrastructure needs of the air transportation system without provisions such as the one described above to change longstanding U.S. law against cabotage by foreign airlines.

I look forward to hearing from you about your position on this critical legislation.

 

[stillaboo]

Has it already passed?!

I can't tell if the cabotage is still in the Senate version. Is it?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:h.r.2115:]http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:h.r.2115:[/URL]

 

[Superkell]

Any one know what section of the bill

I looked at the bill online however I am no Lawyer. Where in the bill is the "loot". Like what section.

I called my Senators and all of you should too. Get every pilot you know the info.

Heck China makes anyone who cnonducts buisness there go into a partnership with them. Like 51% minimum is what the Goverment owns. If they dont extend the same privledges to U. S. Companies trying to earn money in their country why should we flush American Pilots down the toilet for them.

O yea I almost forgot, It is a guy from Alaska who introduced the bill. What is in it for him?

If anyone knows the section that the cabotage is in can you post it here.

I wish all of you tailwinds and soft landings.
Superkell

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Sent an e-mail, and sent a message to all my aviation and nonaviaton friends and family asking them to write as well.

 

[Snakum]

This could be just the tip of a bad iceberg.

I guarantee it. First manufacturing, then IT, now aviation. It's the wave of the future and to be honest, there isn't much we're going to do about it except go get jobs in the service sector ... since that's about all that'll be left after the politicians and businessmen get thru with us.

And for the pro pilot who sent me a PM long ago telling me outsourcing was 'just the way things are' and I should 'quit crying and get out of the IT industry' ... do you still feel like it ain't your problem?

Welcome to hell, my friends. This is just the beginning.



Minh

 

[JohnDoe]

bump......

 

[tittyjet]

As always, my neighbor, Afroman, is johnny-on-the-spot.

I would suggest contacting not only your home senator, but the senator representing your domicile, as well (use your crash pad address).

 

[dogman]

Just wanted to put this post back at the top of the list. This message needs to be put out.

 

[JohnDoe]

Bump.....

once again, this is too important an issue for all of us to let it fall off the first page.

(amazingly though, nobody seems to be reading this looking at the count compared to some of the other "important" threads)

 

[tittyjet]

bump, bump......like one of my landings. oh, and....bump. oh $hit, there goes our taxiway.......

 

[JohnDoe]

bump