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Airlines Cut Minimum Pilot Experience to 500 hours and Below
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:56:29 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote in : Larry Dighera wrote: Today, anyone able to swing a hammer is a carpenter. Anyone with a paintbrush is a painter. Etc. Painters used to attend five years of schooling, before they were journeymen. They knew how to do EVERYTHING.... Today? They knew how to do everything that was traditional, but seldom the newest technology. I can only speak of the IBEW. In Los Angeles, the IBEW has provided classes on fiber-optic cable splicing and solar generation. I believe those examples sufficiently refute your assertion. Times change. Craft guilds wane. The world is a poorer place without knowledgeable craftsmen. But in today's world, economics is king. Noble thought and sincerity are anachronisms. I'm happy I lived in the age I have. I'm not so sure the future will be as nice a place, but the exponential progress of technology is almost magical... I'm a large fan of skilled craftsman also, but that is entirely unrelated to unions as they exist in the USA. It may be unrelated to many unions, like the Retail Clerks, or Teamsters, but I believe what I wrote is true of building trade unions. Unions often fought technology and progress and that didn't help their cause. Doubtless, there are a significant number of unions that use their power to threaten rather than protect. That is disappointing. In any event, I think there is merit in studying construction trade unions as a model for airline pilots. |
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Airlines Cut Minimum Pilot Experience to 500 hours and Below
Larry Dighera writes:
I can only speak of the IBEW. In Los Angeles, the IBEW has provided classes on fiber-optic cable splicing and solar generation. I believe those examples sufficiently refute your assertion. There are substantial differences between locals and regions. |
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