Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

The Delta MEC Policy Manual is available on the ALPA / DMEC web site and downloaded in your document library if you used the iPubs or Box. If you understand the system, things worked like they were supposed to. We do not routinely memrat agreements unless it is the result of Section 6 bargaining. Our MEC could, but most view the MEC as a representative democracy and reps expect to take responsibility for the job by casting their vote.

I suggest those with a concern about memrat first address the policy manual and change it through resolution, if change is desired. Otherwise accept that your rep is going to do his or her job.

The reps can send an agreement to memrat and were going to if CDOs were in there. If that would have happened, it would have been a rare exception to how the MEC usually goes about it's business.

As for the negotiations, they were a bit unusual due to their scope. This was certainly one of the largest agreements ever reached outside of formal Section 6 negotiations. But since it was not Section 6 some of the polling and surveys were not budgeted or completed.

I thought the MEC functioned very well. A side effect of a more open, transparent and inclusive MEC is the occassional glimpse of the untidy side of sausage making. But the payoff of having the MEC respond quickly to pilot input is terrific, IMHO.

Again, if there are suggestions for improvements, lets discuss them and improve the policy manual that provides guidance.