Originally Posted by
shiznit
index, sorry it took me a while, I actually do things besides this forum in my off time...(cue the requisite beer drinking comment)
Not that it matters, but:
I'm not a rep.
I do volunteer.
I have had trips dropped to do ALPA work.
I'm sure if you want to do the kinds of volunteer work I do you can call the MEC office and get involved very easily. There aren't nearly enough pilot volunteers as it stands now. Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Now...the rest of the story.
This illustrates just one of our problems within DALPA. Shiznit, you were an elected rep, but were not re-elected. You were replaced by a rep that is not voting like a management puppet...which is exactly why the pilots in that base voted for him. But when this happens, DALPA makes sure they find a spot high up for you in the MEC administration. A line pilot that wants to "volunteer" on the MEC administration could not get the "volunteer" position you have shiznit. And THAT'S the problem. The pilots routinely toss out reps in favor of reps who say they won't be puppets, but those reps who are tossed simply find their way back to DALPA in admin positions. Is there any wonder why we have this utterly dysfunctional relationship between reps and the MEC administration?
As I've said many times before, our problem is not with our reps. Even though I strongly disagree with the behavior of some of them (like Nestor), they either do the will of their pilots or they won't last long. The problem is our MEC administration. Donatelli and his team are a tremendous disappointment. He's running things every bit as top-down as did Moak and O'Malley, and he's doing so with a team of shiznits. Sad.
Carl