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In Topic: US Pilots Labor Discussion

19 December 2011 - 08:41 PM

I was just making a periodic stop by to see how things were going and I caught this gem in Cleary's communication and noticed that no one seemed to have caught it, or that I didn't go back far enough to see that someone caught it.

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Unfortunately, there is no middle ground being offered by our opposition on any front, so there is simply no question of which side of the battles to be on.

Well the answer is that USAPA did away with the "opposition" when they formed USAPA and killed off the ability of West pilots to be represented by anyone other than USAPA in any non-judicial proceedings.

In Topic: AMR

29 November 2011 - 01:19 PM

Phoenix, on 29 November 2011 - 01:08 PM, said:

P.S. Welcome back!

Thanks, but I am not really back, at least as far as past activity is concerned. I just pick my times to post and this news got me to log in.

In Topic: AMR

29 November 2011 - 01:02 PM

Any M&A action between LCC and AMR spells the death of USAPA, just as the West pilots lost to a voting majority of East pilots. Actually all labor groups face the same problem due to the respective size of the airlines. It is simple math. The only question is whether or not it happens.

In Topic: Injunction is out

29 September 2011 - 07:05 AM

I am coming out of my self-imposed exile and simply want to award the Post of the Day award to Reed Richards. Reed and I often saw things very differently and politely disagreed, but he nailed it with this post.

I am not going to congratulate the winners, nor am I going to console the losers. What I will do is suggest that everyone take a look in the mirror and if you don't like what you see than resolve to do something to improve what it is you see.

John

Reed Richards, on 28 September 2011 - 09:23 PM, said:

Sad day for the union and the East pilots today. I am embarrassed.  I just don’t see any way to put a positive spin on a court ordered injunction.  And it would appear from the woefully inadequate comm. put out a few hours ago that Cleary and Theuer still think there is some “play” left with the Judge.  Better fly the aircraft guys, all else is trivial.  This is big boy stuff.  Cross the injunction with stupid inaction, and you are facing possible personal sanctions, at your own expense, outside the RLA protections (for lack of a better word.)

Next shoe to fall will be Cleary’s “ego” case in NY, paid for by dues we don’t have.  That will be followed shortly by the NMB parking us in negotiations.  What was Cleary thinking, blind siding the Mediator with that filing?  The NMB does not like surprises, and they sure are not going to release anyone to strike with this type of misguided lawsuits being brought. Seham "told you so."

The really sad  thing is there is indeed a problem with the safety culture here at US Airways.  I am not sure it poses an immediate threat to safety, but we are setting ourselves up for later problems. Professionally, we all (the entire Company) could have benefited from a resolution of the safety culture problems.  But there were those that saw it as an opportunity to do some really stupid and observable actions.  And then our own union sits by and watches as a couple of soldiers get whacked for not doing distance learning.  Tragic.  You would have thought McKee could have “made a call” a few days before the deadline and gotten a list of names to warn. Guess he was too busy writing hate mail to the Company every Saturday night.  Yeah, I hate them too, but again, flying the airplane comes first, and allowing some good folks to walk into the propeller for show is inexcusable.  Plastering a photo of one pilot’s family in campaign emails was a low point in USAPA.  Sure you will all jump on my low point reference.

LOA 93 will probably be a loss, but the actual decision is not out.  As I have said before, the West will know first exactly when it is finished.  But they (also) have their own malcontents playing games with false bravado on the win/loss bragging rights.  You can be sure Cleary will overplay any win, no matter how small when it comes out.  He cannot help himself.

Silver could speak any day, but as Parker has accurately said (and he has brilliantly controlled the timeline by filing that case) we are years away from a contract.

As a good friend of mine keeps saying, "Santa aint coming anytime soon, and if he does it won’t be enough."  Especially since Rocky and Bullwinkle down at Woodlawn keep shooting at the reindeer.

RR