Originally Posted by
AtlasSlave
A divider is one who disagrees with the leadership and actively works against those duly elected officials empowered by the membership. Anyone is, obviously, welcome to disagree. When a member takes on work for the leadership and then actively, and inappropriately releases privileged information, that person is a divider due to the seeds of doubt that are sown into the membership from a person the membership considers to be in a position of trust. If a person does not agree with the leadership, fine, but do not take on a position of responsibility and then actively work against the official leadership from within! Do your work, follow the CBA and have your opinion, but do not work against what is after all YOUR leadership too. It breaks our solidarity and no group can afford it; especially not ours.
PLEASE start a new thread Cargowannabe....I am new to posting and would likely mess it up.
First, I think this topic
DOES belong on the Newhire forum as it's gives potential candidates a way to view the ins and outs from a line pilot point of view. Having said that, I find AtlasSlave's comment very disturbing and here's why:
I don't consider myself a divider
IF the union leadership is doing something behind the backs of the membership that only represents a chosen few and sort of reminds me of "backdoor" deals that WERE done with the JCBA. The profit sharing BS is just one of them I heard straight from the horse's mouth where he happened to be out of the office when some of the guys decided to vote on it and that way they new it would pass. But that's in the past.
We not only owe it ourselves but to each and every crewmember to take an interest into what our elected leadership is doing and if you don't agree with something by ALL MEANS question it.
An awesome read on this very subject is
The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman. And yes, it is Non-Fiction (true). For those of you that won't take the time to read it in a nutshell during World War II, a bunch of Airmen bailed out into Yugoslavia. At the time there were two different leaders wanting control over that country after the war. Well, there were moles established in the English intelligence offices that steered Britain towards the Communist leader and supplies were cut off from the leader that was helping save and take care of these Airmen. Eventually, everyone was rescued but only because of secret operations to get it done and avoid the Germans. Again, a very good read to show how
if you don't question your leadership things can go awry.
As I said earlier, I'm not a divider but a person that will stand up and hold the line. There are a few here that know me personally and know I stand behind my Union. However, as the saying goes keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And just because they're your elected leaders doesn't mean you have to follow them down the proverbial path. What kind of great country would the United States be if our ancestors agreed with everything England wanted way back in the day. Did they call them dividers??? Nope, think they called them patriots and stood up for their beliefs of freedom of religion, separation of church and state to name a few.
In Solidarity