ALPA should have no saying in this matter at all.
This discriminatory law should be abolished forthwith.
If ALPA members wants to retire at age
60 or at any age before that, they are
certainly free to do so.
After all, the Greyhound bus drivers union
doesn't dictate the age limit for holding
the operating licens required.
The debate in the senate the other day
was in deed very short and lame.
It gave the impression that a bunch of
greedy pilots wanted to squezze as much
as possible out of a crippled industry that
is far from the truth. How many pilots
haven't lost their retirement allready and
in need of work to simply survive, never
mind the fancy cars!!!
but of course, this is considered to be our
own fault and not that of incompetent
and greedy "management".
How about an age limit for executives.
That would give them only so much time
to mess up.