Originally Posted by
Daniel Larusso
I think the MC is elected by the MEC, so they can only be recalled by the MEC. MC is a position often borne of horse trading between various factions within a MEC. The loser in the horse trading often doesn't bother to run officially once they realize they won't get enough votes from the MEC. To get rid of a MC, you have to find out who on the MEC agrees with you and mount a recall effort against the MEC members who don't agree. You also better have a new MC in mind who isn't part of the current MEC and isn't part of the political process to recall the other MEC members or it's unlikely that you'd get many to stick their necks out on a recall movement. This is why recalls tend to occur more often at smaller carriers with smaller MEC's. By no means an impossibility and it has been done at carriers with larger numbers than FDX, but it has to be a very coordinated process. The machinations of the process are one the reasons MC's can sometimes feel that they can say whatever they wish without impunity.
Seconded. Did any of you get to cast a vote for DW when he was re-elected?
No?
Because the election of the MEC Chair is much like the electoral college for the President: people think they elect someone directly, but they don't.
The only way to get a new MEC Chair is to have enough people on the MEC who are willing to support someone new. And the first way to get that is to get people on the LECs who will have a new view.
I agree with everyone so far who has said that ALPA is us. However, when your representatives (not lords or dictators, but representatives who are supposed to represent your views) disappoint you, the solution is not to quit the union, boycott it or anything else. The solution is to elect people who truly represent your views and who will fight for them when the chips are down.
I know that many people (including me) want something changed quickly, but that is just not going to happen. What CAN happen is a methodical change in makeup of the LECs, the MEC and eventually the Chairman so that they more accurately reflect the will of the majority.
What that means is that everyone needs to participate. Remember what is happening now, and vow that it never happens again.