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ALPA PHL LEC Update for June 23, 2007
Battle to Wage
Fellow Philadelphia Pilots,
We, your Council 41 representatives, want you to fully understand our position, which will not change.
1. We cannot EVER accept an award that does not conform to the ALPA Merger policy. EVER.
2. The Nicolau Award does not conform to ALPA Merger Policy.
3. The pre-requisite to negotiating protections into this award is ACCEPTING this award as valid. See number 1.
4. Acceptance of this award as being valid, in any form, will do irreparable damage to one of the most sacred tenets of this profession and unionism:SENIORITY CANNOT BE VACATED.
The future belongs to those who stand up and fight. There is always risk, but there is also reward. The reward we seek is the upholding of the last standing tenet of our chosen profession. The risk is becoming less due to having little left to lose. Yet some still refuse to fight; they refuse to say no, and they look to compromise.
Averting risk entails negotiating and accepting. Think more Airbuses than God can count, $100,000 Soft Landings, LOA 79, Restructuring I, Restructuring II, LOA 84, and LOA 91. One needs only to look back to the summer of 2004 to see how successful the strategy of negotiating was. Most recently, there was the reneging on profit sharing and stock promised in LOA 93. Remember, management never said they were going out of business, only ALPA did.
Fighting for principles entails tremendous risk. The generations of pilots before us built this profession by making and taking a stand. They suffered firings for union involvement and even loss of their lives in unsafe aircraft. The pilots of our generation are the beneficiaries of their hard-fought but necessary battles.
Our generation of pilots merely had to build flight hours and get the job. It was relatively easy. We have become so risk-averse, we were willing to give back all that those previous Aviators fought so hard for. Negotiating a fix to seniority will continue to dilute our principles and destroy the fabric of our profession.
Concern and action by you, on behalf of all your fellow pilots, no matter where you are on the seniority list, is what unionism is all about. We hope this is not an idea lost on our generation of pilots.
This is a fight too important not to wage; there's no compromise.
Follow the three prong approach, Fly safe, Family First, and SAP down for quality of life.
Fraternally,
Eric Rowe
Dave Ciabattoni
Jim Portale
Battle to Wage
Fellow Philadelphia Pilots,
We, your Council 41 representatives, want you to fully understand our position, which will not change.
1. We cannot EVER accept an award that does not conform to the ALPA Merger policy. EVER.
2. The Nicolau Award does not conform to ALPA Merger Policy.
3. The pre-requisite to negotiating protections into this award is ACCEPTING this award as valid. See number 1.
4. Acceptance of this award as being valid, in any form, will do irreparable damage to one of the most sacred tenets of this profession and unionism:SENIORITY CANNOT BE VACATED.
The future belongs to those who stand up and fight. There is always risk, but there is also reward. The reward we seek is the upholding of the last standing tenet of our chosen profession. The risk is becoming less due to having little left to lose. Yet some still refuse to fight; they refuse to say no, and they look to compromise.
Averting risk entails negotiating and accepting. Think more Airbuses than God can count, $100,000 Soft Landings, LOA 79, Restructuring I, Restructuring II, LOA 84, and LOA 91. One needs only to look back to the summer of 2004 to see how successful the strategy of negotiating was. Most recently, there was the reneging on profit sharing and stock promised in LOA 93. Remember, management never said they were going out of business, only ALPA did.
Fighting for principles entails tremendous risk. The generations of pilots before us built this profession by making and taking a stand. They suffered firings for union involvement and even loss of their lives in unsafe aircraft. The pilots of our generation are the beneficiaries of their hard-fought but necessary battles.
Our generation of pilots merely had to build flight hours and get the job. It was relatively easy. We have become so risk-averse, we were willing to give back all that those previous Aviators fought so hard for. Negotiating a fix to seniority will continue to dilute our principles and destroy the fabric of our profession.
Concern and action by you, on behalf of all your fellow pilots, no matter where you are on the seniority list, is what unionism is all about. We hope this is not an idea lost on our generation of pilots.
This is a fight too important not to wage; there's no compromise.
Follow the three prong approach, Fly safe, Family First, and SAP down for quality of life.
Fraternally,
Eric Rowe
Dave Ciabattoni
Jim Portale
