"Not that I agree with any of that but it doesn’t refute anything I said. No MEC is EVER beholden to ANYONE at National. That is a fact. No one at National can tell our MEC what to negotiate, how to negotiate, how to handle management relations, what to grieve, what to send to arbitration, when to picket, how to communicate with pilots, etc. All workings of the MEC and its committees, LECs and their workings and committees are done at the direction of only those bodies. All that is fact"

It is also a fact that the signature of the ALPA national president is on our contract. Are you sure he does not have input, when he gets to sign off on it?

For example, some folks at ALPA don't want full per diem because it is not pensionable earnings. Another way of saying it doesn't generate dues. Full per diem would really add tax free dollars to the pay of all of our international flyers, but you watch, we will get nickels and dimes. No dues money from per diem, so no large per diem increases. Seems suspicious to me.