Originally Posted by
AlettaOcean
The entirety of the TA2022 was negotiated under Insler: Hamilton was simply the poor sap that Insler set up to try to get it passed.
Ask yourself: What has changed in the 2-3 months between Insler’s departure and Hamilton’s taking the helm? NOT A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT. Why wouldn’t Insler simply ram it through before he left office? He had the MEC and the votes.
Insler was savvy enough to know that it might fail, and it would affect his chances at ALPA NATIONAL PRESIDENT. His name would be associated with a failed, concessionary TA and he couldn’t take that chance.
Enter Mike Hamilton. Hamilton is a fall guy and Insler’s stooge: If TA2022 passes, Insler gets some credit and a shiny new contract to show the folks who are voting for ALPA National President.
If it FAILS, then Hamilton gets left holding his dck in his hand, and Insler never looks back. Hamilton gets egg on his face, Insler comes away clean in this worst case scenario.
The pathetic part is that Hamilton didn’t have the street smarts to figure out this scenario, but now it’s too late. Is this the type of individual you want leading your union?
Here you are wrong. Hamilton is hapless and adrift on the River Insler due to no fault of his other than simply being there and watching it happen. As reported: Insler finally wore out his welcome with the company, their negotiators knew he was on the way out, they told ALPA they were not going to strike a deal with Insler MEC since he was outgoing guy, so Hamilton stepped in and told the negotiators to get the deal wrapped up. Hamilton is simply handing us what Insler's hand picked team negotiated. His only mistake was to tell us to vote for it - he should have simply said "give it a look and let us know if it works for you." Period. He'd be clean as a whistle if he did that but he made the "pride of ownership" error that these guys do every time. We'll see if they can now leverage another bite at the apple due to AA fallout...