Originally Posted by
scambo1
Timbo;
Of course I have spoken to my reps. Good guys BTW! I have emailed ref scope and RAH. I have emailed about gojets. I have emailed about DALPA/ALPA failings (IMO). I spoke with them day before yesterday.
I'm not lazy or apathetic. Unfortunately what I am is someone who has seen enough to not really trust anymore. I mean stuff like the survey which was overall great, but c'mon the legal speak was so thick that if you were up on the issues, 750 characters was just spent trying to undo the corner that the legal speak painted you into in the first place.
What my reps tell me is, we (the 30% of us who care) are "In the Minority". They speak of the "Silent Majority", ie. the 70% who won't put down their golf clubs for an afternoon to attend a LEC meeting.
They figure they pay the LEC guys to "Take care of it" so what ever they come up with must be "The best deal they could do..." and they then vote Yes, with no knowledge of what they are voting for!
When I ask them WHY would you vote YES to that??! They say, "Well...the MEC told me to!"
When I ask the MEC guys why they voted YES to any crappy T/A, they say, "Well, the pilots didn't show up at the meetings in any numbers strong enough to make us feel confident in a job action."
And you know the company usually has a guy or two in there to monitor attendance and report back on the "mood of the pilots", right? Well if nobody shows up, I guess there is no problem, right?