Originally Posted by
sevenfiveseven
This is an excellent point. It is much too easy to show displeasure on an anonymous forum then it is to actually talk with a rep or go to meetings. Want change, make sure that YOUR reps know that you want it. Wishing it to happen and making it happen are two different things. Get involved, email, text, call your reps - it is your career. And we can all start with filling out the contract questionnaire. It would be a shame for this important tool for the pilots to fall into the apathetic black hole.
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the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done." T. Roosevelt
You must be new here. I say that because there have been literally hundreds of posts from many of us chronicling our attempts at doing all the things you list. None of it works because our opinions and the opinions of our reps are irrelevant to the MEC bureaucracy. The most recent proof of that is the complete ignoring of the FPL resolution out of DTW and other councils.
When you post what you think we should be doing, it shows some real ignorance and really poor assumptions on your part to assume that many of us aren't doing these things a lot. It's actually quite insulting.
I don't mean to sound like I'm pinging just you because you're certainly not alone. Many of the incurable ALPA shills just keep restating these talking points over and over while remaining oblivious to the facts all around them...like FPL.
Carl