Originally Posted by
Climbto450
while I agree with you on the LOA12 issue we will have to respectfully disagree on the rest of your perspective. The MEC could have just accepted the offer from the company and passed LOA13 the fact that we voted on it unlike LOA12 showed me that this time the process worked. It wasn't a negotiation it was an offer, we turned it down. The company then decided to violate the CBA and move forward. We get to negotiate CBA 2.0 next year I hope to see the same strength that we showed on the LOA13 vote..
That is incorrect. The MEC was absolutely required to submit LOA13 to the entire membership for a ratification vote. To do otherwise would have been a direct violation of the MEC policy manual. While keeping LOA12 secret from the pilots and skipping its ratification vote was indeed poor judgement, it was impossible with LOA13.
Further, LOA13 was indeed a negotiation. The MEC negotiated it with zero pilot polling or membership input — a major failure.