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Sink r8
If his are the words of defeat, yours are the words of nonsense. If you're going to recall reps to effect a specific purpose, it must be over a specific issue, and the people replacing them must have both the desire and the means to effect the change AND perform all the other business besides.
While slow is way out in left field on this one, I assume slow doesn't speak for ALPA, and slow probably isn't a rep. There is no way he can argue we have satisfactory medical. But then again, there is no way you can pretend we have any contractual avenue for simply changing the medical. This will have to be done in Section 6.
There may be reasons people want to recall reps, but there aren't many people listing medical coverage as their first priority in Section 6. Now, slow may be out of his skull on this topic, or other topics, but slow isn't a rep. So taking out reps that are trying to address our priorities, in order, over a low priority, is bizarre. In fact, I can't think of anything more stupid than recalling reps over something we're not even smart to list as a priority, to replace them with people that can't act on it anyway...
Incorrecto.
Committee chairmen are appointed by the MEC Chair (unlike the fNWA method of the MEC electing them, with some exceptions). Nor is the MEC Chair elected by the membership, making the commitee people twice removed from the people actually funding their operation.
The MEC Chair is appointed by the elected LEC Reps
Thus the way to flush the commitee people is to get rid of the MEC Chair, which is done by replacing the LEC reps.
There might be some collateral damage. Bummer. But to think that one guy can't do as good a job as the next, AND be aligned with your particular view as to union service is hubris.
And we're not just talking about medical coverage. If you think that, you haven't been paying attention.
If you get a few dozen smart guys like Clamp, a few expert wordsmiths and couple of guys who REALLY know their way around the ALPA By-Laws and Robert's Rules of Order, you would see a show worth watching.
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