Originally Posted by
TheManager
What Carl stated about the union is of course fact.
Note: The political power base is the Committee chair positions. They are compensated with FPL.
FPL can reach 92 hrs per month on the highest equipment one can hold.
Additional stipend of $1,000 or more per month is added on top of that.
FPL and the stipend are paid for by DAL. (Not confirmed but DPA claims there are about debit cards that are handed out to reps that are loosely accounted for as well. That one is hearsay.)
Fact. Committee level union officials are still getting C2K pay or better.
All of your "facts"...aren't.
There are no committee people getting 92 hours of FPL. Full time committee folks got 87 hours this past year. For 2010 it was 82 hours. Committee folks get paid for the category they're in, not what they can hold.
There are no "debit cards." This is more DPA tripe.
All expenses have to be approved through the MEC Treasurer and then are reviewed by the National staff for payment. There's also Federal labor and tax law regulating what can be expensed, and the totals are disclosed each year on the LM-2.
At 87 hours plus the monthly per diem, there are no ALPA Committee folks getting C2K
PAY. There are DPA guys that have had over 300 hour months and one of the most prolific DPA posters had one month with 195 hours last summer. Of course there are those DPA committee guys that took loans from the Delta pilot funded furlough and emergency relief fund, then refused to honor their committment to pay that back. Another DPA guy got mad at ALPA-PAC for not contributing to a couple of his political campaigns. He'd never contributed a dime...go figure.
Your paycheck is paid by DAL. Your argument says you're compromised as a union member.
Oh, the power resides in the pilot group. They elect the representatives that elect the MEC Administration AND those reps then confirm the committee chairs. There's open ballots right now for 2 of the 21 elected rep positions. Ballots for 5 of the voting seats closed last fall. Each year at least 3 councils are elected by the membership.
So again, your facts are anything but.
Edited to clear up Carl's word parsing, deflection, and obvious confusion.