Your lanyard and you...

Answer me this. Had I donated to the ALPA PAC back in the late 80s and early 90s would it have saved my pension? Would it have shortened an 8 year furlough? Would it have resulted in preferential hiring at other ALPA carriers? Would it have resulted in a fair seniority integration between two ALPA groups?

Likewise would it have saved the TWA pilots from a staple job?. Would it have given them better jobs when they lost theirs?

How about the Eastern pilots, did it help them? Did it help the Pan Am pilots?

Come to think of it, I was actually young and naïve like you once and did donate in 1990, but then I was unemployed the following year and couldn't afford to donate anymore. So yep, donating does wonders for your career :sarcasm:



TP

This gonn' be goooooooood.
 
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In before the close!!!
 
Simple black Southernjets lanyard here but will be wearing the orange ALPA one when I receive it.

I did the clip thing but after having it fall off a few times the fear of losing it on the ramp in MIA only to later learn of its absence while checking in for my commute home flight from ATL converted me.
 
So you don't care about your career?

While I do acknowledge the PAC's significance, I tend to feel that if I saved every dollar that I would have given to the PAC, I would net a greater amount of personal financial benefit.
 
Omg I need some popcorn

Answer me this. Had I donated to the ALPA PAC back in the late 80s and early 90s would it have saved my pension? Would it have shortened an 8 year furlough? Would it have resulted in preferential hiring at other ALPA carriers? Would it have resulted in a fair seniority integration between two ALPA groups?

Likewise would it have saved the TWA pilots from a staple job?. Would it have given them better jobs when they lost theirs?

How about the Eastern pilots, did it help them? Did it help the Pan Am pilots?

Come to think of it, I was actually young and naïve like you once and did donate in 1990, but then I was unemployed the following year and couldn't afford to donate anymore. So yep, donating does wonders for your career :sarcasm:



TP

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Upkeep costs and they were no longer effective as naval warfare moved farther and farther over the horizon. I'm all for building a new more technologically advanced battlship.

Heck, even ships with steam plants, isn't it difficult finding BTs and MMs with the training to safely operate those?
 
Heck, even ships with steam plants, isn't it difficult finding BTs and MMs with the training to safely operate those?
My company does high/low pressure steam systems and I would give my left arm for a "real" navy BT but they seem to be impossible to find. Can't even poach guys out of the shipyards. It's a dying trade.
 
During hockey season it's an Officially Licensed NHL Merchandise Chicago Blackhawks lanyard.

All other periods of time it is the basic ALPA retractable ID holder.

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