Originally Posted by
Sink r8
The piece you're missing is that we faithfully try to direct our MEC via polling and surveys, when that input actually drives the process. 12 men can agree to anything among themselves, but that doesn't prove that they are actually doing the work of the group.
Otherwise, the best way to settle it is a vote.
Recalls are an imperfect way of doing all of this, and the group gains nothing in the interim, so a vote is best. There is nothing to fear from a vote, is there?
So I copied the post you responded to above, below...!
It's simple. We elect our reps, who comprise the MEC. A section 6 negotiation ends in that body voting a TA up or down (most of the time) If it's up, to memrat it goes. If we don't let this process work, why even have an MEC? Make all contract items, from MOU up thru section 6 negotiations memrat only.
Read what I wrote, and you didn't respond to, and tell me which piece I'm missing? So if I get what you're laying down...last summer, when possibly you, and your buddies on the MEC jammed TA15 down our throat, input did, or didn't drive the process? I would go with didn't, based on the historic first ever failed TA ratification in Delta Air Lines history, and by two thirds to boot. That occurred after the MEC didn't vote in the affirmative on TA 15, they just voted, 11 to 8, to let the membership decide. But after that, before the vote, the 11 wrote lengthy missives telling me why I should vote yes, less than a month after they felt the need to not vote. I agree sink, there is nothing to fear from a vote. I just wish our MEC during TA15, failed, would have embraced your opinion!
Don't know what else you, and those that want a contract yesterday at any expense, have left to try and sell the deal that John Malone would have us vote yes on?