Originally Posted by
9easy
This is little league thinking. You think the ALPA chairman of Delta or United is making min credit? The flight pay loss at an major is in the millions of dollars, it's the cost of doing business. The exco is the CEO of our union, he's running a multi-million dollar business and is our agent to get us the maximum amount of money on the next contract. I'm happy he's well compensated and has the resources to get things done.
What’s little league thinking is having ONE person run the entire union. If we are big league, then we should have multiple people running the union full time. We have the money and there’s more than enough work that needs to be done.
We are managed like a small, third world dictatorship instead of a mature democracy. I agree with you 9easy we need to start thinking like a big league union instead of subleasing office space from a lawyer that only has one RLA client…
If we are gonna be paying the highest dues in the industry let’s build out the infrastructure. You ever ask your stewards anything? To a man, every single one of them will say that Andrew has to approve everything. Nobody has that much bandwidth. We need committees that can resolve issues instead everything having to be approved by one man at the top.