Capt. Sully Retired Today — What You Won’t Hear on the “News”
March 3, 2010 at 7:08 PM Leave a comment
Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger — the man who landed the U.S. Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York City last year – retired today and it’s big news — a “feel good story” — in the corporate media.
But what Sully testified to before congress last year isn’t included because it had to do with the plight of us working folk and the corporate media would rather we not think (or know) about things like this:
Sullenberger, a 58-year-old who joined a US Airways predecessor in 1980, told the House aviation subcommittee that his pay has been cut 40 percent in recent years and his pension has been terminated and replaced with a promise “worth pennies on the dollar” from the federally created Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
The reduced compensation has placed “pilots and their families in an untenable financial situation,” Sullenberger said. “I do not know a single professional airline pilot who wants his or her children to follow in their footsteps.”
Out of respect for Sully, let’s not forget.
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