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04-07-2014, 10:55 AM
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04-07-2014, 10:56 AM
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04-07-2014, 10:57 AM
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I support a nationwide SOS and would guess this might even have the support of some airline management teams. The legacy carriers would probably shut down their express operations (outsourced) too.
If asked to evaluate this for ALPA, a guy would have to figure out how much UNITY ALPA has, and my guess is, not much. What moral authority does ALPA have to stand up to outsourcing when in fact, ALPA facilitates more outsourcing than any single airline operator on the planet?
ALPA can not successfully play it both ways. Do we stand together, or not? If we stand together, then why did our President sign the Pinnacle Bridge Agreement? Why as MEC Chairman did he work to divest Compass from his MEC? Why is recovering work to the branded carriers not even a consideration?*
Our argument against outsourcing 787's falls flat when we have contracts which permit half of our 737 work to be performed elsewhere. If we want to protect jobs, then we should protect all ALPA jobs and then our protectionist chords would ring loudly with our core values. As is, our instrument is not tuned in a resonant key. That is why we have such low participation rates and DPA pushes. The tunes we play don't make sense and people tune out.
We could do better to understand UNITY on a fundamental level. I would recommend against this course of action until we get our collective head straight. A SOS to protect international widebody flying smacks of protecting the elites while we sell our children, and as such has an identical political smell as a pro-Apartheid movement would.
* Not including instances where management wants to return flying to their mainline operation.
If asked to evaluate this for ALPA, a guy would have to figure out how much UNITY ALPA has, and my guess is, not much. What moral authority does ALPA have to stand up to outsourcing when in fact, ALPA facilitates more outsourcing than any single airline operator on the planet?
ALPA can not successfully play it both ways. Do we stand together, or not? If we stand together, then why did our President sign the Pinnacle Bridge Agreement? Why as MEC Chairman did he work to divest Compass from his MEC? Why is recovering work to the branded carriers not even a consideration?*
Our argument against outsourcing 787's falls flat when we have contracts which permit half of our 737 work to be performed elsewhere. If we want to protect jobs, then we should protect all ALPA jobs and then our protectionist chords would ring loudly with our core values. As is, our instrument is not tuned in a resonant key. That is why we have such low participation rates and DPA pushes. The tunes we play don't make sense and people tune out.
We could do better to understand UNITY on a fundamental level. I would recommend against this course of action until we get our collective head straight. A SOS to protect international widebody flying smacks of protecting the elites while we sell our children, and as such has an identical political smell as a pro-Apartheid movement would.
* Not including instances where management wants to return flying to their mainline operation.
04-07-2014, 11:17 AM
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04-07-2014, 12:42 PM
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04-07-2014, 02:42 PM
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So who dropped their iPad on the center console and shut an engine down?????
04-07-2014, 02:54 PM
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04-07-2014, 02:54 PM
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04-07-2014, 02:55 PM
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