United/Continental pilots march on Wall Street (lots of great pics)

[G_j]

Photos: Airline Pilots Protest on Wall Street Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Posted Sep 27, 2011

Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City. The pilots want to draw attention to the lack of progress on negotiations of the pilots’ joint collective bargaining agreement ahead of the one-year anniversary of the corporate merger close date of United and Continental airlines.


http://photos.denverpost.com/mediacenter/2011/09/photos-airline-pilots-protest-on-wall-street-on-tuesday-september-27-2011/

more: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/6189448489/

[xchrom]

1. it's too bad the two protests 'couldn't' join up --

but happening at the same time is a good thing.

[Luminous Animal]

6. Fortunately, Occupy Wall Street was able to join up with the postal workers' protest.

[xchrom]

9. I noticed that & I'd love to see more of that. Nt

[MineralMan]

2. Good for them. The contrast is interesting, as is the media

coverage.

[proverbialwisdom]

3. If there was media coverage last night, I missed it.

[proverbialwisdom]

4. Thank you for posting. Any suggestions for how the public can support the pilots?

[bullwinkle428]

5. K&R. I wonder if Tony Baloney is ballsy and stupid enough to go after any

of them with his pepper spray!

[piratefish08]

7. lazy, hippies screaming with an incoherent message! getcher shit together! oh... what?

who? PILOTS?

oh.



GO PROTESTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jwirr]

8. Good. This is in addition to the younger protesters but it emphasizes

the same issue - Wall Street greed it to blame. I hope other unions plan demonstrations in the WS district. Make them the center of the fight.

[blogslut]

10. I liberated some images from Daylife.com

:hi:

[proverbialwisdom]

11. More coverage here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042680/Wall-Street-Protests-Continental-United-Airlines-pilots-fed-bosses.html

[proverbialwisdom]

12. Here's an article about mass arrests of longshore workers and their supporters.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/28-2

Published on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle

Longshore Workers Make a Stand for Labor
by Jack Heyman

Longshore workers on the Columbia River caught everyone's attention three weeks ago when they blocked a move by a multinational grain consortium that threatened their union and their jobs. The media berated hundreds of longshoremen "storming" the port of Longview, Wash., and dumping thousands of tons of grain from railroad cars on the track. Most accounts glossed over that in opening its $200 million Export Grain Terminal, St. Louis-based Bunge North America refused to abide by the port's contract to hire workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 21.ILWU International President Robert McEllrath was detained by law enforcement.

Bunge threw down the gauntlet, then acted shocked when the ILWU resisted. More than 125 longshore workers and their supporters have been arrested, including ILWU International President Bob McEllrath. He was released after police the were surrounded by some 500 angry longshoremen. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton complained because his anti-picket injunction has been defied, saying he felt like a "paper tiger." The Local 21 union hall proudly displays a banner, "Defend the Picket Line, Defend Free Speech."

Why such a militant struggle to defend jobs?

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[G_j]

16. thank you

this is newsworthy to say the least!

[blogslut]

13. kick

:kick:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. The interesting thing about airline pilots

is that many of them (not all, but quite a lot) are politically quite conservative. Many have military backgrounds, maybe Air Force Academy, and tend to vote Republican. And it's fun to get them talking about THEIR union (ALPA for most of them), and how management is screwing them and the union isn't doing enough to protect them, etc. - and then get them talking about other workers, particularly public employees, and how THOSE unions are greedy and overreaching. For the conservatives among them, their union is important but nobody else should get to have one. One liberal pilot of my acquaintance commented that he couldn't figure out why so many of these guys can be ardent union members while voting Republican.

[dana_b]

15. powerful pictures

I hope their management listens to them