I hope that none of our Committee Chair's are irreplaceable. If they aren't developing talent on their team to take over, shame on them. That seems like a basic quality of any good leader and a core ingredient in any successful organization.
Seems like a decision was made by the majority of the MEC to disallow a person to sit on the R&I Cmt - for whatever reason. They really don't need to share that, and honestly I don't care. That's their job, they raised there hand, ran for the position and were duly elected. Now they get that responsibility. We can sit on the sideline and cast stones because we see what looks like a stupid thing. But who was acting inappropriately? Perhaps, picking up your ball and going home was, at the end of the day, what he wanted to do and this was the tipping point? I'm not sure if that decision was in the best interest of all of us (pilots) who are most effected.
Ultimately it seems unprofessional to me to leak out your resignation letter, which is clear because the first one posted didn't even have his signature on it. So that wasn't the one that was given to the MEC chairman, obviously the signed one was. That signed resignation letter was later posted on Jetflyer as an update!! So who is manipulating whom here? Not sure I want a guy that considers burning down the house on his way out to be at the helm anyway.
The bottom line is, business for the Union must go on and we can't have the departure or resignation of one committee chair lead to failure of the entire committee. The MEC made a decision and the R&I chair was unwilling to live with that decision. Time to move on. Lets not act like he's irreplaceable, he's not. In fact they already announced that a previous R&I chairman stepped in to act as interim while they find a permanent chairman. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate his years of service to the pilots, but he's moving on, and we need to have that position filled with an equally talented person. Don't forget, we have substantial, full-time staff that provide the core services to our pilots.
Lets not act like this is the first chairperson to ever leave their union job. Take a breath and lets at least act like grown-ups rather than the talent on celebrity reality shows.
We fly jets for a living for Christ sake!
