Originally Posted by
LivingTheDream
If this is true, it is very sad. 15 or so guys at an LEC meeting propose this nonsense and my MEC thinks this is what 11500+ guys want?
If this is how tuned in our MEC is to our pilot group, I am more than a little concerned for our 2015 negotiations.
Was there a recent resolution? I know there was one from 2010 and it was shot down.
So this is the conundrum wrt the resolution system isn't it? If the MEC blows off a resolution passed at an LEC meeting, they are not being responsive to the pilots. If they adapt it, then they should not be listening to just 15 pilots.
What should they do? (This is not a rhetorical question) poll the whole pilot group after every resolution is passed? It is not unusual for the MEC to consider 30 local resolutions at one meeting. The phone lines at our homes maybe ringing off the hook. At that point, we have just about eliminated the needs for reps at all as we are just about to the point of a direct democracy.
That being said, I have no idea how the MEC got to the point where they were considering something as controversial as CDOs without much more input from the pilot group. Many pilot sponsored issues are no brainers and great ideas, this one was not.
Either way, the pilots that are willing to stay informed were able to turn the tide. Good on ya!