How to register to dump ALPA

[Junebug172]

Nobody over here is laughing. This is serious.
A320 Driver B)

Have a great 700UW free day!

No, he meant we're laughing at you - personally.

Yes, I suppose we should suck it up and take it like a man. Give in to John Prater's threats and keep happily paying our dues to an organization that not so long ago wished for our demise. I also suppose that the high fiving and joy was interupted by the East pilots crying foul.

I'm sorry we ruined the party.

A320 Driver B)

So big guy, what do you do once ALPA is off the property? Who you going to get to represent the pilot group?

 

[Cactus737]

Most every ALPA property has some sort of "anti-ALPA" website up and running. These sites are usually paid for and run by one or more ALPA outcasts still in the business of trying to make names for themselves. If the United effort were credible in the least, you'd be hearing about it within the organizaiton.

 

[767jetz]

It appears that [some] United pilots want to dump ALPA too.

Other than the 6 pilots mentioned, I can't find any indication of how many pilots are involved - can you?

Jim

Jim, I don't have a number, but I can tell you the number is very low. These guys are easy to find because they wear their ALPA pin upside-down. (They don't take the pins off because people would think they are scabs.) I see very few of them around the system.

 

[nostradamus]

Jim, I don't have a number, but I can tell you the number is very low. These guys are easy to find because they wear their ALPA pin upside-down. (They don't take the pins off because people would think they are scabs.) I see very few of them around the system.

I never wore a ALPA pin.

 

[CaptainZitface]

I never wore a ALPA pin.

You're not at United (yet 😉 )

 

[nostradamus]

You're not at United (yet 😉 )

I will never wear a pin that represents tyrants.

I will never wear a pin that represents tyrants.

tyrant

 

[Cactus737]

I will never wear a pin that represents tyrants.
tyrant

That's won't be a problem if AAA sucessfully decertifies.

 

[nostradamus]

That's won't be a problem if AAA sucessfully decertifies.

It is not a problem now for me.

 

[CaptainZitface]

I will never wear a pin that represents tyrants.
tyrant

Well, at least this time you linked to the english Wikipedia. Still got a headache from reading the one in German.

Shuss, Herr Nostradamus. Guten Nacht.

 

[nostradamus]

Well, at least this time you linked to the english Wikipedia. Still got a headache from reading the one in German.

Shuss, Herr Nostradamus. Guten Nacht.

You failed to see the irony of that post, read it again.

I said in that post I would speak in ALPA terms, another language, get it.

 

[A320 Driver]

No, he meant we're laughing at you - personally.
So big guy, what do you do once ALPA is off the property? Who you going to get to represent the pilot group?

I have NO idea. Lots of chest beating and theories back East, but no definative answer to your question. We have some extremly talented individuals who, should they become involved, could put together an in-house union that would be worth having. Getting them directly involved is another matter. The problems at ALPA are two fold, national and local. If you shed one without the other you basically end up with the same disfunctional mess that we dealt with prior to the seniority award.

Laugh all you want my friend. There is a train wreck coming and we're both on it. But you ask a GOOD QUESTION!


A320 Driver B)

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[767jetz]

I never wore a ALPA pin.

That's because you don't fly for United. As new hires we learned very quickly in basic indoc that there are only 2 reasons a United pilot does not wear an ALPA pin:

1) He/she is naked.

2) He/she is a scab.

It's very easy to spot a "slick tie" (one with no pin) at United. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

The up-side-down pins are almost as easy to spot. They are very few and far between.

So the point is that there are very few United pilots interested in leaving ALPA. It's just another false theory posed by your resident self-proclaimed know-it-all Airbus Captain (F/O?).

 

[nycbusdriver]

It may not work out the way USA320 writes it out though.

Truth be told, it rarely if ever does. Even most of the easties view his posting as claptrap and "for entertainment purposes only."

Ultimately, it will work itself out one way or another, and we'll all deal with it one way or another.

Yes, you are exactly right. Most will be along for the ride; many will be the ride operators; it promises to be an "E Ticket" event; many will lose their lunch in the process; and life will go on anyway.

And as long as I have a jumpseat, you are welcome on it

Deal. And vice versa.

 

[nostradamus]

That's because you don't fly for United. As new hires we learned very quickly in basic indoc that there are only 2 reasons a United pilot does not wear an ALPA pin:

1) He/she is naked.

2) He/she is a scab.

It's very easy to spot a "slick tie" (one with no pin) at United. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

The up-side-down pins are almost as easy to spot. They are very few and far between.

So the point is that there are very few United pilots interested in leaving ALPA. It's just another false theory posed by your resident self-proclaimed know-it-all Airbus Captain (F/O?).

I flew with many former Frontier pilots. One said that if he was asked where is his ALPA pin, he would reply it is in a draw next to his Frontier wings both made useless by United ALPA mec.

 

[nostradamus]

Most every ALPA property has some sort of "anti-ALPA" website up and running. These sites are usually paid for and run by one or more ALPA outcasts still in the business of trying to make names for themselves. If the United effort were credible in the least, you'd be hearing about it within the organizaiton.

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