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Old 15th Sep 2005, 15:28
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FoxHunter
 
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Who wants to work to 65? Maybe you do but most pilots do not, this board excepted. ALPA just voted to fight legislation to raise the retirment age and the US Supreme Court ruled that you can have a retirement age in regards to pilots.
You are misinformed on both counts. ALPA did not have a vote, they conducted a poll. The Supreme Court did not rule on the issue, they decided not to hear the case, allowing the lower Court ruling to stand.


An earlier ALPA President on the issue of polls.

ALPA president, J.J. O'Donnell, before the House Subcommittee on Aviation,
July 18, 1978, on Age 60 (note his comments on the use of "polls" in this
matter):

"...anyone could get any poll to say anything they wanted. I would not
encourage polls of our membership because there is no way to educate them,
and no matter who wrote it, you will get some bias written into the polls.
Therefore, I feel the democratic process we have at ALPA is to let the
governing bodies give me direction. These directions are that we oppose the
Age 60 regulation and we have for years."
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