It would be hard to illustrate the arrogance of power within the DALPA bureaucracy any better than this. Our union's own processes that ensure fairness and equal representation don't matter nearly as much as winning.

The fact that our processes were purposely subverted in order to "win" the battle is the single biggest reason our MEC is so divided to this day. Yet Karnak and the others in DALPA's permanent bureaucracy crow about it.

Process does matter. We all lose when we find ways not to follow our processes. I was obviously a NO vote on TA 2012, but many friends of mine who voted YES did so because they felt they'd been maneuvered into a no win situation. If that's the way our MEC administration "wins", it only shows how weak their positions truly are. So weak that they have to be hidden from the members until it's too late to complain.

Carl