Ahh, the could have been argument. This explains why every east pilot with a union position is referred to as Capt so and so when they are in fact FOs.
This is not true. S. Bradford, while now a capt., always went by F.O. Bradford while he was USAPA Pres.
You mean those pilots who were not on the active list? They were furloughees.
Even the list that the east MEC submitted to the arbitrator showed them as furloughed pilots.
Yes. And what a jack@$$ move that was, right? Has it dawned on you guys that we voted out ALPA precisely because of this kind of stupidity?
It's so easy to point the finger at an old, overripe ALPA unit like the AAA we-know-best, Give Away Gang and paint the whole group with that brush. ALPA had completely run away from its real responsibilities. That group of idiots was looking out only for their ALPA positions, nothing more. They were stupid from the word go, wouldn't listen, and the ALPA structure kept them in power long enough to do the damage they did.
WE SOLVED THAT PROBLEM!!!!!
All the things you guys blame east pilots for (binding is binding and all that) WAS ALPA's DOING. ALPA's FAULT.
But there ain't no ALPA here no more. EFF ALPA.
There seems to be some sort of disconnect of cause and effect for you guys, some sort of blind eye turned toward the fact that ALPA is gone. No one here cares what happened under ALPA because it was a negligent, asinine group of greedy, lazy political aholes who wanted to stay at resorts and do their little parliamentary procedures and stay off the line, off reserve, out of the skies. They crashed us! They're idiots! We RID OURSELVES OF THEM AS SOON AS WE COULD.
So, you can say "we" signed on for binding arbitration 'tll the cows come home, but it wasn't us at all. It was ALPA. And like so many people say here on the east when they hear that acronym, I say "who?"
