Politics

By now you are all familiar with my position on our so called negotiations. I ask you to take a look at the beneficiaries of the actions to date. While we are asked to put our jobs on the line, Delta pilots get to see a union strengthening attempt by which they could benefit, at no risk to themselves. Heppner gets to see himself as the white knight taking the fight to the management thieves that he likes to blame for our duress, regional affiliates get to see their market share exploding overnight as we shrink operations..........and you get to watch this all happening, from the outside. Ihear it time and again:"it's been too long, we must do something. Management continues to drag it's heels" etc etc etc. To buy into this kamikaze strategy you have to first accept two things: one, that we presented a reasonable offer to them, and have attempted to move towards a mutual solution. Two, that our union leader really wants that solution. Let me say here and now that I don't believe we have acted in good faith. ALPA, if you want to disprove this accusation, release the minutes of the meetings and offers/counter offers. Regarding the second accusation, ask yourselves this: why has our leader set us on a divisive path with management and CAL pilots? Why did he undermine Wendy Morse' leadership organizing spurious "special" MEC meetings? why did he file for release without consulting Pierce? Why has he continued to personalize and antagonize our CEO, when he knows that could result in irrational and mutually destructive decisions? These are all symptoms of megalomania, and I believe he should be removed from office immediately. If not, you will pay.

The Real End Game

                                                                  The Real End Game

May 27^th issue of the Leading Edge:  The Chapter Entitled “United Mainline and the RLA” leaves us with the cryptic comment “to be continued….”

I cannot believe that you, the ALPA member reading this, are prepared to accept this form of insult. There is only one step after the litany of procedures that are enumerated here, and ALPA cleverly omits it, hoping you are too dumb to find out for yourselves. It is this: After the release from the NMB, and after the proffer of arbitration, and after the thirty day cooling off, and after the Presidential Emergency Board (“In practice, PEB’s are relatively rare” they say……………………. ….well…duh…everything is relatively rare…..we don’t strike every day),

What happens is Congress gets to write your contract. Let me repeat that for the slow witted:

 CONGRESS-GETS-TO-WRITE-YOUR-CONTRACT.

That

Is

The

End

Game.

Best of luck.