Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
I judge the way my union works for me based on its achievement of my goals, not yours, and in my assessment of what I believe should a, would a, could a been possible under the circumstances at the time. That is the only realistic metric in my view. At the end of the day, we must each cast our votes for or against a TA or a rep on our own personal and informed assessment of those metrics.
I do not need to know whether my fellow pilots value this over that to make those judgments.
And I'm sure your union is very happy with that point of view. It allows for them to not be held accountable to a goal that is known to all involved, and the opaqueness allows for declared success even if you (and many others) were not satisfied with the end result. Without transparency an organization which fails to reveal what its membership states desirable can claim it met the goal of the group as a whole, but the membership only have trust to rely on without the ability to verify.