Originally Posted by
Rated De
It starts at the individual level.
The "representatives" must reflect the discontent, however it appears that the "representatives" would prefer to follow the goat path to management.
With the former AIPA President sitting opposite those he once purported to represent, as a handsomely rewarded IR negotiator, the smart money is on the "senior union representatives" busily amending their Curriculum Vitae hoping to tread the path to management.
Seriously Rated De, you are a cheap gutter troll. You trot out your big words and pretend to be an expert on everything but you are not a professional pilot, you don’t work for Qantas, you are not a member of AIPA, you don’t know the members of the COM, you don’t know the Executive and you don’t know the negotiators. You are an internet troll, criticising all behind the cover of anonymity.
The AIPA members you criticise work hundreds of hours (predominantly) for no monetary reward. They do it to advance the conditions of their colleagues. It is an infinitely more noble pursuit than that of an internet troll who only seeks to disparage those whom they do not know.
The most important factor for pilots if PIA becomes a necessary path is
Unity. We all must stick together to back our colleagues to achieve a fair outcome. Unity is not achieved by denigrating the union office bearers who will be the ones to call for such action if/when the time comes. Attacks that are not based on facts but only sew distrust and division. You wouldn’t know the individuals if you saw them in a terminal, you’ve never shared a flight deck with them and you know nothing of their plans for the EA or beyond.
Ironically, the biggest beneficiary of your gutless, ill informed attacks on the AIPA exec is the one person you troll more than all else, Alan Joyce (or Little Napoleon as you childishly call him). So well done on that own goal.