Originally Posted by
julietalpha
The man probably works no less than 25 days a month on our behalf... Realistically it's every day of every month.
There has to be some compensation for that.
Probably because he's a paranoid control freak and refuses to delegate anything except to the two or three people on the EXCO that he trusts. If he delegated he wouldn't be so busy. But he also wouldn't be able to cry to the pilot group how he works 24/7 so he needs $350,000+ a year.
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.
Except at Delta or United, that guy is managing a team of hundreds of staff, lawyers, and volunteers (and they pay less dues for all that). Our EXCO is literally Andrew and a few of his trusted buddies who have no accountability to the pilot group especially after he got his new bylaws and got rid of elected stewards.
Originally Posted by
captnate702
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.
Exactly! Andrew runs it like a kingdom not a corporation. Everything has to be personally approved by him. He delegates nothing and trusts no one then whines how he works 25 days a month. Plus the sleazy Vegas lawyer who is fleecing us since he can't even seem to win an arbitration, much less negotiate an RLA contract. We've got the money to hire a nationally known aviation law firm, yet we stick with Andrew's buddy who has no RLA/NMB negotiating experience except with us, because Andrew can control that situation.