Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
This sort of thing happens every meeting in every MEC. Most just don't get caught. I once attended an $1800 dinner with the full ASA and Comair MECs at the local Longhorn. I'm not saying you guys shouldn't raise hell about it, I'm just saying don't be surprised if heads don't roll and nothing changes. Yes, the union guys see this as their reward for volunteering. In in many ways, they deserve it. It's a full time, unpaid job, that you have no idea what you're getting in to to until you do it.
Are you trying to say the guys on full time union leave aren't paid? I think you are mistaken, or are mistaken about who is attending these functions... at least from what I've been told. When I asked it was:
MEC Chairman - Full time union leave with guarantee 95 hours CRJ pay
MEC Vice Chairman - same as chairman
MEC Grievance Chairman - same as chairman
MEC Treasurer - same as chairman but EMB pay
MEC Negotiating Chairman - CRJ CA pay for a person who never upgraded
MEC Committee Members - ones on full time union leave shadow bid and get paid whatever they could hold online
Doesn't sound like very many unpaid volunteers there to me. I'm told there are many unpaid volunteers, but that they are not the majority of the ones attending these functions.