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On 1/26/2003 5:01:50 PM cavalier wrote:
So no one is bullchipping anyone here. There will be no job action.
- Get real and start 'earning' your place here.
- Live to fight another day.
- If you don't like it quit. Remember 'you' have so much employment potential.
- You are not voting anyhow.
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pitguy, did you miss the zero tolerance meetings?
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cavalier,
I have not been in favor of job actions till recent events. Dave has placed the final straw into the basket that broke the camels back. The lack of honesty and a direct and calculated series of statements at the hearing has placed us in a grave situation. If you read the memo from the MEC's 24th codephone. You will see the numbers and summation of the letter of confidentiality. Dave broke this binding letter. He not only broke the letter but then proceeded to place the finial nails in the coffin with the caculated statements. This was not an accident or a error on his behalf, but a positioning move to place ALPA in a hindered position. He knew that time was not on the side of ALPA and probably felt that could drive the union to accept/renegotiate or take it to the courts. It could also be an attempt to extract more from the other pensions due to distress to the total of around 3.1 Billion.
As it has been explained to me the pension funds move to the front of the list. They are prior to the creditors and this is a better solution for the older aged pilot force. The pension is the main focus of this senior group. Most pilots will be hard pressed to make up for the losses associated with termination of the current plan. With so few years before manditory retirement at age 60 it has become a non negeotiable issue. That is why the pilot force is commited and the ALPA MEC came back with the unanamous vote of 12 to 0.
I feel this is one issue that Dave & Dave bet the wrong way. It has been the fire to ignite the dormant storage tanks in the pilot force. It is somewhat like the struggles of the infant ALPA union many years ago.
GOD, help us overcome these trying times.