Originally Posted by
ManFlex
Do you recognize that giving rank and file access to all financial data also gives our management access to all of our union's financial data? Shareholders are not entitled to access to proprietary financial information of a company, so why should all union membership be shown all the inner financial workings of their union? That's why we can choose our representatives via elections and we should trust them to be custodians of all of our union's resources.
Your charges of impropriety will never be quelled no matter what information you have access to. Let's be real about that.
Incorrect. Lame excuse. We're not talking about the Strike Preparedness Committee Fund, or funds dedicated to negotiations, attorneys, etc. (mostly supported by ALPA National). That should clearly be kept in-house. By the way, when it comes to ALPA money, the company knows exactly how much money is being deducted from every single pilot and being funneled to the union. THEY also have all the ALPA trip drop information and cost (they authorize it!!). We're talking here about day-to-day operating budget. How much did it cost to set up quarterly meetings at the venues. How much is dedicated to send reps to ALPA conventions, on a yearly or quarterly basis, etc. This is no big super top-secret thing that the company cares about. But us, dues-payers do.
You see, at my previous carrier, we could see the budget. So much for the Membership Committee (to take new hires out and dine). So much for Safety Committee projects. So much for the HIMS Committee. Expenses incurred for meetings, etc. What's the big deal? Here, we have no access to basic financial information. Wrong on all levels. That's as real as it gets...