Originally Posted by
slowplay
I believe that the committee experince makes for more effective reps.
If you mean at the LEC level, I agree. For example, I support B.S. in C66 for a full-term as F/O rep, because he's a good mix of experience and new blood. He worked in contract admin, so he knows the contract, and represented pilots locally in that context,
before he got six months of OJT as the interim. That's probably the optimum mix.
If you mean that a person has to work in committees at the MEC level, to navigate the politics for some period of time, I think you're creating a closed loop where the culture drives the rep.
I think reps should be informed and knowledgeable, yes, but they should represent the will of the pilots, and be supported by SME's, not educated as SME's, and then sent back as reps. Show me a guy with a history of working locally, in my council, and I'll show you a guy I probably would vote for.