Originally Posted by
Probe
So, your last statement.
The MEC is abrogating their duty by allowing membership ratification? Sorry, and no offense, but that might be one of the weirdest statements I have read here.
You think it is better that the MEC dictate to us what we want and get, and never let us vote on anything? If they let us vote, they are abrogating their representational duty?
Maybe you mis-typed, or I mis-read.
Me? I think we should vote on just about everything. Most importantly, the top 3 MEC officers themselves, and ALPA national, should be voted in by us. Not their cronies, which is the way it works now.
The company loves deep thinkers like this. First, it would fail under it's own weight and it wouldn't take long for the pilots to loss interest in the process. You'd have larger domiciles dominating the smaller - kinda like IAH and EWR vs GUM and CLE but you know that. The current squabble over this TA a good indication of the lack of the knowledge of the real issues. You've brought this up several times and yet you've given no example of a union or collective using it. Current system has served us well for years. Would you care to venture a guess when the UAL pilots started getting up/down votes on the contract?