12-14-2016, 06:30 AM
Thank you gentlemen, you explain your point expertly as usual. Call me old fashioned I struggle with the f word in public. I should get out there more often. I agree the fight and outrage. I was writing to my MP about what was to unfold in our industry at least thirty years ago when, with a only a couple of notable exceptions, no one was very public for reform and airline pilots were sitting high on their pay packets, many of the seniors bidding for shore time and working a 300 hour year. Don't open that one I hear you say but most industry leaders seemed to be fairly comfortable with the status quo in those days prior to the dispute.
At least I think it's pretty much agreed and recognised now that political action is the first priority and skirmishes with public servants won't yield much. So the question is how? Direct political party involvement, publicity, AOPA and TAAAF support. Work to be done, meetings to attend, letters and phone calls to MPs. For one thing Liberal Party membership has waned considerably and therefore members are more valuable especially in marginal seats. We've no alternative but to keep up pressure, no one saw the Berlin Wall coming down.
At least I think it's pretty much agreed and recognised now that political action is the first priority and skirmishes with public servants won't yield much. So the question is how? Direct political party involvement, publicity, AOPA and TAAAF support. Work to be done, meetings to attend, letters and phone calls to MPs. For one thing Liberal Party membership has waned considerably and therefore members are more valuable especially in marginal seats. We've no alternative but to keep up pressure, no one saw the Berlin Wall coming down.