Originally Posted by
rickair7777
BS. The regionals, manned largely by young, inexperienced pilots need guidance and a road-map from on high, as well as a defined path (by labor, not managers) to the bigs. National, and the major MECs, have no incentive to help with that, since they all benefit from the B scale.
Aggravated by the fact that the junior, inexperienced (and often apathetic time building) members typically get hijacked by corrupt old-boy MEC's with the best interests of the 20+ year crowd at heart.
Of course that can happen at the majors too, but it's less of an issue because none of them just fell off the turnip truck.
I've been a member on my regional MEC. You don't know what you are taking about. No one tells any MEC what to negotiate for, period. National provides attorneys and other specialist. But there are no pilots, other than those on that properties seniority list, that tell anyone anything as far as guidance on what to negotiate for.
There may be no incentive for one MEC to help another, which is precisely why no mec tells anyone else what to do. Each does what they feel is in their best interest. Most times those interest line up but sometimes they may not.
Lastly, MEC's as diverse as the demographics up the each base and seat. I'm my mec, I've seen senior, junior, old, young, reserve, line holder, instructor, men, women (in fact, one of them is an equal executive Vice President in ALPA national...oooh conflict of interest!). When I was serving, we had all those except a female.
I'm telling you, this whole ALPA conflict of interest is BS. The conflict of interest is in sapa. But if you don't like ALPA because you continue to believe it has a conflict of interest, you can certify sapa and have the best of both worlds.