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  1. Go back to Flight instruction FO, where you actually knew something.

  2. if anyone can take a long walk off a short pier it can be Moffatt.

  3. I've noticed an increase in the number of small businesses requesting a Health Reimbursement Arrangement as a replacement or alternative to offering a group health insurance plan. Businesses limit spending by putting a limit of $2,000 to $10,000 per employee per year.

  4. Hoffa can take a long walk in a short pier, what has he done for Teamsters pilots ever, nothing. The teamster organization is largely truckers and Hoffa could care less about the needs of us pilots. This is evident by the Teamsters magazine even, 20 pagers about truckers and one back page about pilots. Unions over the past decades have done nothing but lose membership and power. The pilots at Republic have taken over several airlines domestic flying like United and Delta. The title Regional is even outdated, the days are gone when we flew turbo props within 200 miles, we now fly four and five hour flights coast to coast, Mexico, Canada, and even the Virgin Islands. "Regionals" like Rrpublic have replaced most of the do eating flying that was once done by airlines Like United on their 737 jets with United employees, at a much higher cost. Republic pilots do the same job at a fraction of the pay and at greatly reduced quality if life. Many of the pilots and flight attendants at Republic are on food stamps living a life of fatigue and poverty. What has Hoffa done for us, nothing. We pilots have not had a renewed contract going on six years, at a time when Regionals flew puddle jumpers. United Express is now more a part of United than United is, Express does more takeoffs and landings every day than does United pilots. So where has all this cost savings gone you might ask, well it goes to line the pockets of CEO's like Brian Bedford, Wayne Heller and people like Hoffa that just collect their bonus money and union dues. Where was Hoffa and all the truckers when the National Mediation board demonstrated nothing short of corruption and organizes crime by failing to do what they are tasked to do, come to a contract settlement or ALLOW US PILOTS TO STRIKE! No, we can't do that because its against the law by the Railway Labor Act. I we cannot withhold our labor which is against the law, we have no negotiation power at any table and this in effect amounts to modern slavery of the workforce. They have us by the short hairs and even though we have exhausted all means created by our government the process has failed, we have no recourse. The safer card they are playing is bogus, the fact is us pilots volunteer our time to ru. All these programs for the company for free. We have and always have had a safety reporting system called NASA reports which pilots can participate in. Programs like ASAP are merely tattle take programs that primarily benefit the company and their insurance premiums, and yet they are run by the pilots for free. I applause Mr Moffet for his efforts, for this this Republic Airways Captain of 11 years has ever seen a union leader EVER stand up to the company for us pilots. It's hilarious that the company wants to talk about safer, ask them why after the rules changed regarding rest requirement after the Buffalo accident, they continue to violate these rest and work rules merely because they are not enforced yet. Why do the continue to schedule pilots for 8 hour overnights where the maximum time a pilots head can be on the pillow resting is 5 hours. If they cared at All about safety and not their pocket books these obvious unsafe practices would have been eliminated long ago. Ask Brian Bedford that has an Olympic sized swimming pool and indoor basketball court in his house, and Wayne Heller that drives a $450,000 Ferrari to work, why many of their workers are below the poverty level and on food stamps. It's a fleecing, oppression, an enslavement of American workers in a highly vital transportation business, a business that without a doubt carried a coworker or a loved one you know today, while being fatigued, flying sick, and underpaid. This hype about a threat of safety by Moffet and us pilots is nothing short of propaganda. I can also tell you that Moffet getting fired was nothing short of intimidation by the company, it's not the first time a pilot has been railroaded by the company using the training program as a weapon, a weapon that has been wielded before at "trouble makers," long fired from Republic but nobody cared and the union gave them no representation at all. This I'd the weapon the company uses to keep the mass of the pilots in line enslaved to their jobs, fear of reprisal. No, this article is way off base and shows the typical journalistic weak effort, no investigative work whatsoever. I'm an 11 year Captain at Republic flying you and your family safely from coast to coast in North America for over a decade, and you haven't a clue I wasn't a United, Delta, American, or Us Airways pilot, and that's just the way the corporate moguls like, they are laughing all the way to the bank.

  5. Yes Sun cut the fat, but they also stuck it to many of long time employees

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