Originally Posted by
capt707
You are ok with a complete overhaul of our MEC and preparing for the inevitable JCBA......?
.....Then do something about it! Recall your reps then or step up if you don't like it! Bu you won't, just like every other person sitting behind a keyboard b!tching and complaining. I've said it before, everyone wants to be involved now and everyone is a professional negotiator. Look at the turnout when it comes to LEC elections... how many stepped up last time and how many participated in the election process? MEC Chairman elections will be this fall... we will be over 5k pilot group by then... how many do you think will step up? How many ran for the NC committee position? It's the same crap at every airline.
As far as the "pillars", since I've heard this argument before.... So if they would have gotten pay and profit sharing, but no increase in per diem (like Spirit TA...and eating out on the road has gotten $$$), they should have walked away because they didn't achieve the per diem pillar? The same crap is going at Delta... They had several pillars, not all were achieved, so should they have not sent the TA out? Same is happening at Hawaiian...
So the argument of step up and volunteer if one doesn’t like what’s happening isn’t a valid argument. It’s a typical canned response from those who volunteer for a position with high visibility and don’t like criticism. In our current MEC state, our guys are hand picked to either support the chairman or thats it. It’s the main reason why almost every vote that has come up in the last 3+ years is always agreed on unanimously.
I drove 5 hours round trip during the FLL recall vote, and while I have no issues personally with any of the LEC guys at the time, I didn’t agree with their positions on our MEC. My issue is this wasn’t a negotiation, nothing was to be given away. It was told to us compensation and profit sharing were the target. I don’t like that the target wasn’t met so I’m a no vote. I’m tired of the we will get them next time mantra and excuses; it will continue forever ad nauseam.