Heyas T,

Check out the Council 20 update from 9/23. You can find it under the LEC links after you sign into the DALPA site. I won't post it here, since you can find it easily enough. I read it and was almost sick.

Not a rumor. These are active plans under consideration. SOME won't be decided by your elected representatives, but ONLY by the Executive Committee...made up only of MEC Chairmen (yea, the guys/gals not elected by the membership).

We just went through a gigantic ****ing contest (which was unnecessary according to the Parliamentarian) regarding the 3 vs 4 man NC for the second time, and all of a sudden THIS gem pops up at the national level?

Maximum of three negotiators

Of all the potential bloat, they want to cut ONE GUY doing actual work? And how about that timing? Coincidence?

FORTUNATELY this sorta got shot down, otherwise we'd have to hold ANOTHER NC election. It got modded to permit 4 man teams if the company is ponying up for one guy.

Other gems:

Eliminate non-status representatives
Close LEC offices
Potential option to replace the non-status representative with an LEC Executive Administrator (EA)- APPOINTED NOT ELECTED

Read the comments by the Council 20 Chairman. He was concerned not only with the contents of these proposals, but the manner in which they were delivered.

The Compass sale was facilitated by one thing...the relaxation of scope permitting the sale of Compass without a DC-9 replacement on the mainline property.

Let me repeat that...the sale of Compass was PREVENTED from happening unless there was a DC-9 replacement. There was NO facilitation to sell Compass until AFTER the JCBA. THEY COULDN'T SELL COMPASS UNTIL WE LET THEM.

This restriction was present in the fNWA PWA, and in the JCBA, it vanished. It was removed on purpose and was a relaxation in scope no matter how you slice it.

Nu