Originally Posted by
Lear Driver
You mean like the LEC meetings where maybe 10 people show up?
If only half the people in the WhatsApp groups and APC filed NCCs instead of just complaining online, things might change. Instead I watch the poor Union LEC Reps and other Union volunteers beg people on WhatsApp, to send them an email to document something. But no that's too hard. Maybe we could get the Arbitrators to accept WhatsApp posts as valid NCCs since half our pilot group can't find the SPA website? [emoji848][emoji849]
Or the Hotel Committee chairman on WhatsApp, begging for documentation on hotel complaints. Nah too hard to fill out a form, my complaint on WhatsApp should suffice.
We are a very entitled and extremely uninformed group when it comes to the content of our contract. I don't care if you love it or hate it... just know it!
We constantly post things like "where is our Union on this!? We are the Union! Get involved in the process! Whoever the MEC Officers are, support them and show unity! Hate the company bean counters not the guys volunteering their time fighting them.
Oh and if possible can we wear the lanyard next time? I mean I know some of us wanna make our own lanyard, cause we had a better idea than the Union green one. And some of us look too pretty in the Navy pants to have a lanyard that is green or red and doesn't match.
But pretty please with a cherry on top, can we at least wear the lanyard next time? A small request since 90% of us are too busy to fill out NCCs or show up to picketing events.
Exactly! I mean I hate to say it, but maybe the first baby step is a yet another weekly union email outlining each and every individual step on how to fill out a NCC and a hotel complaint, along with weekly play by plays of how the contract was violated and how to avoid it just to get people's eyes opened more and participating.
I don't know what the perfect solution is, or if there even is one, but I'm fairly certain the major first step is stopping pilots fighting pilots on Whatsapp and APC. Or maybe I'm completely wrong and every airline is like we are and they are constantly fighting among themselves like us.