Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I had no idea that reposting a Council resolution would spin into a N/S thing. It was not even what anyone was thinking.
It wouldn't have if you'd just posted the resolution to show that this wasn't something that the MEC came up with on their own. Instead you wrestled with the pig a little too long. I'm pretty good at that....
You've every right, and in my view a responsibility, to defend your friends with the facts. Sometimes those facts make people uncomfortable - they cause them to be accountable. Pandering populism fades when confronted with the facts. It's not a N-S thing when you show the facts.
Fact: C20 forwarded a resolution to the MEC unanimously passed by their membership. That resolution was done prior to the 1Q 2010 MEC meeting. The MEC took no action on it due to upcoming FAR changes. (source 2010 C20 resolution posted
here).
Fact: The MEC directed the negotiating committee to negotiate the inclusion of SDP in this FAR 117 agreement (source C1 update posted
here).
Opinion: The people active on various webboards were surprised by the inclusion of SDP in the agreement and reacted very negatively to their inclusion.
Opinion: I find it interesting that in their post meeting update C20 would write
Incidentally, contrary to a new “urban legend”, the SDPs were not a result of Council 20 reps lobbying for them. We have had significant reservations regarding the concept of Split Duty Periods (SDPs / Continuous Duty Overnights - CDOs), and this was reinforced by the input from Council 20 pilots.
when one of the members of C20 was at the table for both the 2010 resolution and 2014 negotiator direction. Absent the C20 input, moved and seconded by Councils 1 and 108 at the MEC meeting, there was no other push for "illegals" of which I'm aware.
There's nothing "N vs S" in those facts. And we wouldn't have been discussing SDP without the concurrence of the Delta MEC.
You've got to wonder why there's not a similar level of outrage over the cross council recall efforts, though. Makes some of the protests here ring hollow, imo.