Originally Posted by
BlueJetDork
You are lying or boldly ignorant.
For instance JBU MEC meeting in Laguna Beach is listed. It was also a swinging deal for Jetblue Pilot dues as the hotel is empty during the winter. Same with spot this past month in Huntington Beach.
These meetings are for Jetblue pilots and staffed attended by Jetblue pilots. Not ALPA national on a vacation or whatever is your pee brain mind.
Anyone who attends is checked against the non member list which is not possible via video chat. For instance, at Me and Ed pizza in Lakewood, CA a few months ago a member brought two non members and they were asked to leave. Never got in the door. If he was at home then the non members could attend.
Oh crap Jetblue pilots bought Jetblue pilots pizzas and Coke and Sprite but the Lemonade was never touched.
Oh the mismanagement!
Next brilliant idea please!
Please continue with the excuses.
For the record, I never said they were ALPA people on vacation. I question them spending money on events that, in other corporations, don't require travel. Every time they go somewhere, it costs a lot of money. This is totally unnecessary. Shall I start on the costs of ALPA magazine? That's in there too. Why print it and pay for mailing? Just email it. And while you're at it, stop wasting money on professional graphic artists.
As for verifying membership, there are literally millions of alternative means of positively verifying attendance. You just don't have the requisite technological knowledge to know that. Funny how my old employer had little tags that generated certain numbers that could verify our authenticity 20 years ago. It's a simple mathematical technique.
Before you accuse me of lying,
why don't you go on the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT website and look at all the union activities for yourself? I took those screenshots from the National ALPA report (Form LM-2). Don't believe me, go look for yourself. Are you saying they were misfiled to the government?
I provided you links.
ALPA is wasting inordinate amounts of money because it's easier for them. 1.9%+ is too much, particularly for the results BJ pilots are not getting.
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