Aer Lingus pilots paid €300,000($441,000)

surreal1221 said:
I'd imagine the AFL-CIO would welcome them back into the fold if they simply paid the couple million that is owed to them.

Make right, right.

You're an A&P over at FedEx then huh?

Welcome to JC, nice to have some new(er) perspectives.
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Well I sit behind a desk in Maintenance Control at FedEx yes. I did my share of wrenching on airplanes out in the elements for a lot of years..Kinda nice to be in a climate controlled environment. I don't think I will go back to being a line A@P again. Oh and thanks for the welcome to JC.
 
FXMXC said:
Well I sit behind a desk in Maintenance Control at FedEx yes. I did my share of wrenching on airplanes out in the elements for a lot of years..Kinda nice to be in a climate controlled environment. I don't think I will go back to being a line A@P again. Oh and thanks for the welcome to JC.
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So you were the guys (though at my regional and not FedEx) who me and my captain got into an argument with over what "visible moisture" was? MX control was convinced it meant rain, we told them it was clouds. It ended with the chief pilot calling them.

But really, that's my only real run in with MX! Hope you stick around these parts.
 
jtrain609 said:
So you were the guys (though at my regional and not FedEx) who me and my captain got into an argument with over what "visible moisture" was? MX control was convinced it meant rain, we told them it was clouds. It ended with the chief pilot calling them.

But really, that's my only real run in with MX! Hope you stick around these parts.
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Well if you are in aviation long enough you will eventually butt heads with someone be it ramp/MX/agents/FA's or pilots. Unfortuately we have a few people in every rank who are the 1 percenters.
 
FXMXC said:
Well if you are in aviation long enough you will eventually butt heads with someone be it ramp/MX/agents/FA's or pilots. Unfortuately we have a few people in every rank who are the 1 percenters.
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True enough. I've found the great majority of mechanics I've worked with to be great guys. I used to work in a MX base and always had those guys 50' away from us when we had a problem or a question with a plane and it was great to be able to tap that level of experience on a moments notice.
 
FXMXC said:
You can be a part of the labor movement without being in the AFL-CIO.
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The labor movement is only effective when everyone joins under one umbrella. Independent unions are destructive to the labor movement.

Isn't the APA American Airlines pilot union not a part of the AFL-CIO? What about the UPS and SWA independant unions?
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The regulars around here can tell you that you probably don't want to get me started about those "unions." ;)

My real problem is that no matter how you feel about a particular union if that union has a legal picket line and you perform their work that is STRUCK work and you are a scab if you perform it
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I don't think anyone here would disagree with that.
 
I don't know if I'd say they are destructive to labor, but they might not be as constructive as they could be.

Its better to be independent than non-union that for sure, especially if that is the only way that a group will organize.
 
OldTownPilot said:
I don't know if I'd say they are destructive to labor, but they might not be as constructive as they could be.
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Not always true. The APA, for example, has been very harmful for RLA labor in general. Several court rulings as a result of APA actions have created problems for everyone else under the RLA. ALPA has wisely avoided those issues, but the reckless actions of the APA have screwed us all over. We need unity, not a bunch of rogue factions.
 
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