Greetings from UAL,
As a fellow ALPA affiliated airline, you should be aware of what's happening in our neck of the woods and how it affects the upcoming ALPA national elections. Our former MEC chair, Todd Insler is running for ALPA national president and will be soliciting support from other airline MECs in the next couple of months.
We are in the throes of a contentious contract negotiation that has been exacerbated by intra-union politics. The general feeling among membership is our union leadership is out of touch with the rank & file and that there is a too familiar relationship between management and union leadership, cultivated over the past several years. I encourage you to read the United Contract 2022 subthread under the United tab for greater context.
Today, the Newark Council 5 membership voted overwhelmingly (5 to 1) to proceed with recall efforts of our LEC officers. Additionally, the membership overrode the LEC chair to pass several additional resolutions to send very clear messages to the company and union leadership. There are similar recall efforts proceeding at other domiciles.
Please do your due diligence when looking at our next national officers and consider what is transpiring at United.
Originally Posted by
jerryleber
C5 Resolutions passed:
Fairness in communications. (Both sides of any recall ballot have to have equal comms.)
Recall of LEC Chair (497 to 101)
Recall of LEC Vice (505 to 85)
Recall of S/T (462 to 118)
No confidence in, and recall of, Negotiating committee
No confidence in Mike Hamilton
No confidence in Todd Insler (member of C5)
Public rebuke of, and apology by, Capt Ward due to his repeated infractions of Alpa C&BL.
Restricting the NASC ("the Steering Committee) from its current 11 members back to the 2 recommended in the Alpa manual.
Todd Insler attended the meeting, but did not afford his own council the courtesy of introducing himself or addressing any of the issues other than whether a recall resolution of Bob Ward on the NASC was in order.