Originally Posted by
DeadHead
What kind of legitimate debate do you expect when majority of our membership is given piecemeal information?
Good, reliable information warrants well-informed, coherent debate which leads to effective decision-making. However, we are constantly given vague updates from closed-door meetings held by our MEC, while being told not to pay attention to rumor or innuendo.
To name a few....
1. Survey Results (not published)
2. Contract Opener (vague)
3. Weekly Updates (vague and repetitive)
Rumor and innuendo, is basically all the line pilot has before being thrown a TA and told to get behind it. I've been making a conscience, effort on reaching out to my reps and usually the response is one of non-committal, agreement.
I'll stipulate to your assertion the communications effort is a source of great frustration, from the MEC and local reps both.
Sink, you write up a post like this after starting a thread saying that by discussing rumors we're are costing ourselves money through disunity, however the MEC and NC can engage in their "power struggle" at the expense of our 12,000+ pilots. Hypocrisy doesn't even begin to describe it. If you can't agree with that then I sincerely encourage you to do some soul searching to see which is more important, the union or our pilots.
I DO agree with you, and so I don't think you're getting my point.
First, it's not the discussion of the leaks that's reprehensible, it's the leaking itself.
Second, I'm not condoning this power struggle, I'm condemning it. I'm trying to highlight it. Trying to get guys into power, or pushing guys out of power is NOT serving the Delta pilots. And there are no sacred relics that need protecting.
The union is not more important than the pilots, it IS the pilots. diverting energy from negotiations, towards a political purpose, including via leaks, is stealing from all of us.