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This goes back to my frustration about the notion we can't elect our own union president. Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver
That's a great point. But the concern many of us have is that our MEC believes something significantly LESS than SWA is all we can achieve, and they will open with significantly LESS than the minimum floor some of us are stating. They have given us no reason to believe otherwise and plenty of reasons to believe this is the case.
The DPA, this forum, this public sausage, they're all ways to try to check and balance the union but none would be as effective nor as beneficial as empowering the members, those whose salaries are used to fund the union, to elect our own president directly.
We should have the ability to have a bloodless revolution from time to time if needed. To not allow one to vote for their own union president equals member suppression and we become a union no different than any other Trumka affiliate who love the big inflatable rats.
It's beneath us to remain in that kind of system given we've got the intellectual faculty to fly aircraft the size of buildings that cost 9 figures new to the opposite side of the planet.