Continental and United pilots protest on Wall Street

A lot of these management people actually enjoy making life hard for others, they enjoy the process of power in a psychotic way. It is important to note that a pilot does not possess this characteristic...his/her job is to preserve and not to destroy.

Reagan fired ATC Controllers who were actually on strike (and they were fired only because it was an illegal strike.) These pilots are NOT on strike and participated using days off between their scheduled flights.

They are using their Constitutional freedoms of free speech and assembly to make their point.

Did they make their point? Is this an effective way to influence negotiations? Valid questions.

Your "in other words" are just that, not theirs. You put words out there stemming from your understanding. I protested in California with my sign encouraging to Shop Local and be a Conscious Consumer. My reason, if people would stop giving these conglomerate a**holes their "dirty dollar" we wouldn't BE in 1/2 this mess. But if they wanna get out and stomp their feet about their issues, more power to them. We are American, WE CAN!

Maybe not but you hang out with them Kathryn Harrold. Most of those clowns can not even explain why they are there. Drop the drama queen rhetoric and climb out of the cosmic bunny hole and look at reality. I sure hope you are not an airline pilot.

The ad is not looking for protestors... they are looking for staff. Does the Tea Party not have paid staff?

The protestors do not want anything for free. They want to be able to work so they too can make a living, eat, have a place to live, raise a family. You know, those things that every American wants. That opportunity has been stolen by the banks and corporations. That is what they are protesting

Or in the case of older people like myself (60) we want to make sure the Social Security we paid into is there for us to collect. We do not want it privatized so the banks can rape us further. We want to be sure that Medicare will still be around. We want our kids to be able to work and make a decent living.

They are not little rich kids with nothing to do. They are jobless people who want jobs.

This is what it's about:

"They’re complaining that Wall Street wrecked the economy three years ago and nobody’s held responsible for that. Not a single person’s been indicted or convicted for destroying twenty percent of our national net worth accumulated over two centuries. They’re upset about the fact that Wall Street has iron control over the economic policies of this country, and that one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street, and the other party caters to them as well." -- Alan Grayson

There is no political entity behind this. It is not left vs right. The reason you don't understand it is because you don't want to.

We are not Anarchists, Pat Clar. Don't be ridiculous. Good for people for standing up for what they think is right, vs. sitting around bitching about how they wish things were.

Sounds more reasonable (actually, thought that was the intended number rather than what was [no doubt, erroneously] written. Have to ask, though, what's their gripe considering the salaries they make and what the 'system' has allowed them to obtain and enjoy? I understand they may currently be having labor negotiation problems but what does that have to do with the capitalist system?

Mergers seem to always be traumatic. The UA/CO situation is reminiscent of the PA/NA merger. Then, to exacerbate matters, PA goes down the tubes. Neighbor of mine walked the tightrope from PA (707 FE), layoff (flew a while for Saudi (FE), rehired by PA, went thru the National merger, survived that (FE on L10, FE on 747 (103 the day before), 2nd on 747, decided to fly domestic and went 2nd on PAA shuttle, then Capt. on 727, layoff, flew FE and 2nd for United on 737. What a rollercoaster!