Originally Posted by
Packrat
Again, YOUR MEC worked it into the TA, NOT ALPA NATIONAL. How come you guys can't get this simple concept through your thick skulls? The place I used to work had a No-strike clause for years. ALPA National didn't negotiate it...we did. We traded it for pay rate stability.
In fact, National insisted the no-strike letter remain as an unpublished side letter so they wouldn't have to sign a contract with a no-strike letter in it.
Get a grip. If you have heartburn with your contract look no further than the guys you elected as your LEC officers. They elected the MEC officers and approved the Negotiating Committee members.
Your anger is misdirected.
Watch who you're calling thick there pal. I'm not an idiot, I realize there is a difference between National and Local. But the tail follows where the head leads, and the simple fact that national allows the separate MEC's to basically represent both sides of the equation with a regional and mainline partner shows how effective the organization is.
If you are a parent and your kid goes out and breaks the neighbors window, are not you responsible for the window as a parent?
So you can throw around all of the insulting remarks that you want, but the simple fact is that ALPA national is a joke of an organization, staffed by people who make entirely too much money and are at best marginally effective in creating any kind of change.