2015 Pilot Discussion.

[luvthe9]

Tell me why USAPA spokesman, James Ray was not granted APA membership?
Metro knows why:
Metroyet
Posted 18 January 2011 - 09:08 PM
Metroyet
James Ray, the USAPA "national" spokesman, is a verified Continental Scab. Any information provided by a group who let's Scabs speak for them can't be trusted. I read a few dozen pilots showed up for this pointless parade of lies and omissions.
There's a name on the master list:
Ray, G G UAL 85 30516, Retired, Gary
Ray, James A CAL 83 dob 9/16/59, 0030P
Ray, Richard L EAL 89 72570
Ray, Thomas D EAL 89 64135, 4/89
Ray, W T PAA 85 Domestic System Scab
They've got teletypes that prove James Ray operated revenue trips as a strikebreaker at CAL.
Pull your pants up, Luv, your hypocrisy is showing.

Not enough room to put all of you scabs on here. You have to remember AWA was a place of last resort before Walmart, no one willfully went there.

 

[A320 Driver]

Oh how true............
"We wish we worked for a management team we could truly trust; unfortunately, we do not. In looking back at the past 10 years we have seen countless examples of this management continuously abusing the pilot group. Understand however, much of the mistreatment has occurred as a result of poorly drafted contract language -- poorly drafted language that we agreed to. Lets learn from our mistakes and not allow this to happen again with something as important as our health benefits. Because like our pension, once its gone, its gone forever"

I wish we had reps we could trust free of their own agendas. I have the Value plan this year. According to my W2 it costs around $20,000. The threshold, if I read it correctly was over 30,000 in 2018. The excise tax is 40% of the amount over the threshold that defines the cadillac tax. So, my plan has to go up 33% before it is subject to the excise tax. So lets say for the sake of argument, it goes up to $35,000. 40% of $5,000 is $2000 or $167 per month if I have to pay it. So the reps are saying we can't negotiate a lousy $167 per month based on this scenario??? FUD plain and simple from what I can see...

 

[luvthe9]

But, But!...Didn't you see those hourly "pay" rates!....? Don't ever be so silly as to consider overall compensation (or lack thereof) as any comprehensive issue!

Our pay rates need to be about 40% higher to come close to Delta's new rates.

 

[Zone5]

April East bid results are out. Great to have a primary block again! let's hear it for no bump no flush.

West negotiating committee trapped in to insisting on the NIC, which will never happen, THREE lists, we all voted for it and so it will be.


seajay

 

[luvthe9]

April East bid results are out. Great to have a primary block again! let's hear it for no bump no flush.
West negotiating committee trapped in to insisting on the NIC, which will never happen, THREE lists, we all voted for it and so it will be.
seajay

Poor,poor, PHX.

 

[luvthe9]

I wish we had reps we could trust free of their own agendas. I have the Value plan this year. According to my W2 it costs around $20,000. The threshold, if I read it correctly was over 30,000 in 2018. The excise tax is 40% of the amount over the threshold that defines the cadillac tax. So, my plan has to go up 33% before it is subject to the excise tax. So lets say for the sake of argument, it goes up to $35,000. 40% of $5,000 is $2000 or $167 per month if I have to pay it. So the reps are saying we can't negotiate a lousy $167 per month based on this scenario??? FUD plain and simple from what I can see...

Call around to some of the APA reps as I did, the company completely controls you on LTD it seems, not good at all. Not to mention the company can changes our health care plans around.

 

[EastUS1]

I wish we had reps we could trust free of their own agendas. I have the Value plan this year. According to my W2 it costs around $20,000. The threshold, if I read it correctly was over 30,000 in 2018. The excise tax is 40% of the amount over the threshold that defines the cadillac tax. So, my plan has to go up 33% before it is subject to the excise tax. So lets say for the sake of argument, it goes up to $35,000. 40% of $5,000 is $2000 or $167 per month if I have to pay it. So the reps are saying we can't negotiate a lousy $167 per month based on this scenario??? FUD plain and simple from what I can see...

 
"Shirley" you can't be serious sir. This is, after all, a situation that's been described as being completely outside of anything even resembling negotiations, even though clear and serious concessions are somehow, as if by magic, able to be negotiated within...and well heck, even a whole new contract, come to think of it, but none of this is at all anything involving "negotiations"....Right?
 
"We don't need anything from you foolish pilots...Nothing whatsoever, and the only reason we'll offer some higher hourly rate isn't based on some shell game for playing cogenital idiots off against each other, but just because we really, REALLY care about "doing the right thing"...."So call now in the next five minutes, NO! we mean only FOUR minutes now, or we'll keep all of our purple tutus, just to show you!" One simply could never even try to even begin to make this sorry sort of completely pathetic BS up...And yet, supposedly "intelligent" and even "professional" pilots are actually buying into it? Whew! Words just fail me sometimes.
 
Anyone who doesn't see all the classic mechanics of both a "shell game" and a "bum's rush" combined here shouldn't even be driving cars, much less operating passenger-laden aircraft...or ever even allowed around scissors or sharp instruments of any kind.

 

[EastUS1]

AWE

 
"AWE"/AWA is a pathetic given here. "You'se" voted 98% in favor of the obscenely constricting MOU, have an entire history of being nothing more than comically pitiful little shoe-sole-licking "useful idiots", include among your highest "level" and truly "heroic" contributors actually proven and entirely unquestionable SCABS, and are indeed, your "Best Friend Forever/First-name-basis Doug's" mindless little knee-pad (if not quite yet purple tutu'ed) attired darlings, especially when directly asking of him during a company "Crew News" how to "turn in" your "felow pilots", and can now only be reasonably expected to have not since enjoyed anything in the way of magically enhanced cerebral or spiritual evolution. "You'se" are long since evidenced as just a complete waste of time and total write off in both my, and most very certainly management's estimation. No posts of mine are ever intended, or even vainly hoped, to ever sway what could only (with even the utmost generosity of spirit) be even laughably termed your "minds"....
 
Anyone with the slightest concerns as to the veracity of the above need look no further than these gems:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlzpMjT58WY
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSFvQ-0p2I
 
Nothing in the above's crassly intended as an affront to ALL out in PHX, since not all are truly time-tested and well "trained' village idiots by any means, but for the bulk of those enlightened "spartans" posting here?...Well/etc...But; did anyone ever check at least the pressure/psi in that fool's football? ...Or even such inside his skull?

 

[CactusPilot1]

April East bid results are out. Great to have a primary block again! let's hear it for no bump no flush.
West negotiating committee trapped in to insisting on the NIC, which will never happen, THREE lists, we all voted for it and so it will be.
seajay

What does it mean to be trapped into insisting on the Nic? You present a list, (the Jess), the West presents a list, the arbitrated one. What authority do you have to say it will never happen? The company made it's position clear they don't oppose the NIC. Other than your opinion, where are your facts?

Let's revist the ruling which validated the West Committee:

"The Board dismisses USAPAs argument that it - as the pre-merger
representative of all US Airways pilots"


"USAPA, the Board finds, has neither obligations nor responsibilities to any
bargaining unit members, including even the East Pilot seniority list grouping.
What is clear, though, is that USAPA does not represent the West Pilot seniority
list grouping and does not have a duty of fair representation to that group of
employees."


"Moreover, USAPA does not have the authority to prevent the West Pilots
from participating in the SLI process at the invitation of APA, the sole and
exclusive bargaining unit representative."


Transcripts from the hearing:

MR. SIEGEL: (Counsel for the company)
17 Thank you, Panel members.
18 I think it's clear to the Panel members
19 and it's clear to the people in this proceeding. It
20 has been stated many times in a lot of different
21 situations, frequently in federal court. But I
22 think it's important to start with the restatement
of the principle that the Company is completely
2 neutral with regard to the actual seniority list.
3 We are neutral with regard to the order of
4 the pilots on the seniority list. And we are
5 neutral as with regard to whether and how the
6 Nicolau Award should be considered by the ISL Panel.

 

[EastUS1]

What does it mean to be trapped into insisting on the Nic?

 
Umm..A great many years of a "life" of mindlessly "righteous" and needlessly insane mediocrity spent entirely in PHX?
 
No doubt though, that  "you'se" noble crusade will, any moment now, finally, for-sure-this-time, at least grant you all "forty acres and a mule", or heck, maybe even "72 virgins".....?

 

[CactusPilot1]

Umm..A great many years of a "life" of mindlessly "righteous" and needlessly insane mediocrity spent entirely in PHX?

Mindlessly "righteous" is an Usapian trait.

Why is a decertified union holding this election?

2015 National Officer, Appeal Board, and PHL Domicile Officer Election 
January 22, 2015
Dear USAPA Member...

To vote, follow the instructions shown on the back of your Voting Notice
Please note that the office of Vice-President, Secretary reasurer, Executive Vice-President, Appeal Board 
seats 1,2 and 3, and PHL Domicile Vice-Chairman were unopposed and won by ...
Please choose one(1) candidate for USAPA Presiden and one(1) candidate for PHL Domicile Chairman.
President (please check one)

Captain David E. Ciabattoni

Captain Stephen H. Bradford

[The following question will be presented only to qualifying voters.} 
PHL Domicile Chairman (please check one)
Captain John A. Taylor
Captain Douglas L. Rice

 

[EastUS1]

Mindlessly "righteous" is an Usapian trait.

 
Being moronically, and now for over 9 years stuck in PHX "righteously" whining, with still nothing more than perverted fantasies of inflated self-worth, a ton of legal bills, but at least some "way-cool-dude T-shirts" and AWAsome $675 ties is apparently a "spartan" trait. Thanks, but I think it best to stay on the side of the at least marginally sane....
 
P.S. Have all "you'se" previously 98% proven halfwits/"useful idiots" already voted? How soon should I plan my parties on the chump change such fools as yourselves are likely about to provide me, at the wholesale expense of your own futures of course?...?

 

[EastCheats]

P.S. How soon should I plan my party/parties on the chump change such fools as yourselves are likely about to provide me, at the wholesale expense of your own futures of course?...?

I'll bet my son is better with money than a clown like you. I'll bet you scare the kids at parties.

http://www.com/watch?v=_r0by4cPvbo&sns=em

 

[EastUS1]

I'll bet my son is better with money than a clown like you. I'll bet you scare the kids at parties.
 

 
No worries here. I wish your son the very best in life, and most certainly hope his genetics for intelligence come entirely from your good spouse, so's to at least hopefully make that wish an even possible reality.

 

[A320 Driver]

Call around to some of the APA reps as I did, the company completely controls you on LTD it seems, not good at all. Not to mention the company can changes our health care plans around.

That is not new and reflective of our current contract. Now, what does LTD have to do with the example I just gave regarding the medical insurance? If you dispute my example, fine! Dispute it and correct it. Personally I think this red herring is being used to garner more no votes by scaring those that won't read it for themselves.