Originally Posted by
TonyC
On the contrary, if there were ever a "local union rep" who was opposed to the pancake plan it was me, and I never detected even a hint of pressure from ALPA National to dump our "A" Plan in favor of another market-based retirement benefit.
Since you asked, it's important to remember that the ALPA President has to sign any Collective Bargaining Agreement. I might be reaching here, but it's entirely possible that a FedEx ALPA President might not look favorably at giving away our "A" Plan.
But bottom line, you hit the nail on the head. There is no excuse for reps not representing their constituents.
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So only one person at “alpa national,” the president, can threaten withholding his signature, to an MEC’s negotiating goals? I believe that the president can only withhold his signature if the negotiations were not conducted in accordance with the administrative manual and that was because it was a negotiations for concessions that have certain rules that need to be followed by the MEC to ensure a concessionary negotiations are warranted, which in that case they weren’t.