Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Care to refute what slowplay is saying then, Carl?
OK...
Originally Posted by
slowplay
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.
My reps and other reps tell me it can be as high as 92 hours per month based on circumstances. Exactly as The Manager states. The one way we could all find out is if DALPA released FPL data as demanded by our resolution that DALPA killed. Wonder why they did that?
Originally Posted by
slowplay
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.
Again, reps have told me just the opposite. Debit cards are used for this purpose, but they are indeed approved through the MEC Treasurer and reviewed by National Staff.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
There's also Federal labor and tax law regulating what can be expensed,
Nobody said anything different.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
and the totals are disclosed each year on the LM-2.
I particularly love this part. It sounds like an answer doesn't it. But the TOTALS don't mean anything if you can't apply them to an individual committee person or volunteer. Maybe slowplay really meant that the LM-2 lists each committee member and volunteer by name, and lists that person's totals. My guess is that the LM-2 just shows the grand total.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
At 87 hours plus the monthly per diem, there are no ALPA Committee folks getting C2K rates.
At 92 hours, there are.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
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.
Name the 300 hour guy, and/or the 195 hour guy. Or even PM us the names.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
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.
Who did that? Name the guy.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
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.
Who did that? Name the guy.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
Your paycheck is paid by DAL. Your argument says you're compromised as a union member.
Another one I really loved. My work as a Delta pilot is on behalf of Delta. It makes perfect sense that Delta would pay me. Slowplay and the other bureaucrats are supposed to be working on behalf of Delta pilots, yet they're paid by Delta management. That not only doesn't make sense, it is a setup for what we have now...union leadership beholden to management and attending each others kid's birthday parties.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
Oh, the power resides in the pilot group.
Utter nonsense. The killing of the pilot's flight pay loss resolution is just the latest example of where the power really lies.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
They elect the representatives that elect the MEC Administration AND those reps then confirm the committee chairs.
If you talk to some current and former reps, they'll tell you what happense to you if you as a rep try to upset the MEC apple cart. You'll be isolated from key information, forgotten to be called for snap teleconferences and used as an example to other LEC reps as to what can happen if you don't shut up and color.
Originally Posted by
slowplay
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.
As stated many times before, reps don't matter. Change them at will, and nothing will change because the power lies in the MEC committee staff. That's the way a top-down union works.
Carl