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.
Directly from the ALPA Admin Manual.
3.The MEC Secretary/Treasurer shall report at least quarterly to the members of the airline as to the status of the MEC Account including SMRA.
It's been six years since I studied the C&BL's, and the above reference could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Also, I believe that Federal Law requires that unions always have open financials to their membership. I'll cut the SPA MEC some slack on this as it is actually difficult to accomplish, as most financials are in the form of "accountant speak", and it takes an accountant to decipher them. FPL reports are easier and in my experience we have had fairly normal FPL expenditures. As for me, I'd like to see more FPL go toward giving committee vols time to do their jobs and less go toward the ever increasing arbitration process. But that's just my overall philosophy of doing the members business. When the company realizes that our only way of fighting them is in court, they force everything to court.
BTW, I agree on having volunteers on full time FPL. We are certainly big enough to have at least the MEC Chair on full time FPL.