Originally Posted by
oncewasgood
How do you know what the extent of the language was on Monday? Are you on the MEC or the negotiating committee? How does one watch a zoom call if they are in the air on a flight as an operating crew member? Do you wanna throw a meeting on the books with 1-3 day notice and half of the elected reps are not in attendance? Doesn’t the policy manual require a meeting to be “in person“? You act as if it was all predetermined and we “for sure” would have an agreement last week. I just don’t think that’s how it works. Doesn’t the MEC have to be removed from trips? Does that take time to occur? I don’t think you change the policy manual through an “election“. I’m fairly positive you would have to do a resolution and show up to a meeting for that to occur. To me it sounds like you don’t understand the process or the policies and may need to brush up on that. This is just my understanding though of how a policy is changed. This was discussed at the joint Council meeting just two months ago. How many of those meetings have you attended?
So you've questioned me staying informed so I'll ask you the same question... Have you been staying updated?
The updates in the Negotiations section on the Fedex Alpa website contained lists of what's TAed and what isn't. It spelled out what language was TAed and what wasn't. After all, a TAed section is a TAed section... Correct? The last major thing TAed was in early January (Retirement) where PM said that he was optimistic that a TA would be reached later that month. At that point the only things remaining were Compensation and Duration according to the January 10th update. At that point there is no good reason that every elected Rep shouldn't have been reading the entire thing if they hadn't done so already. The finishing touches a week and a half ago were likely mostly a pay table, retro pay, and duration. Very limited things to read. By this point it isn't too much to expect that they'd have already been read. Any required final paperwork and documents could've been prepared ready for finalities to be cut and pasted into them. For the record that update was dated January 10th meaning 5 months ago as of June 10th.
We aren't going to agree on the rest as I think making sure everyone meets in person should be changed in 2023. I've done plenty of union work before by various audio/video chat services. To me delaying this process to do things that it's very obvious could've already been done prior to last Monday is not a good thing. Given the fact that we chose not to prepare for this prior to the TA we must now do it to dot our i's and cross our t's. You think that doing things like they were done in 1999 is a better idea and despite delays for all of our pay increases, is better.
As for changing the way things run, there is a process to change it and it should've been done. It doesn't take an act of Congress with a 60 majority in the Senate plus the President's approval. It should be obvious that delays to make this vote happen aren't a good idea when a new TA can be emailed and read instantly whereas 25 years ago that might not have been a reality.
Maybe I need to attend more council meetings so I can be a voice against having our own union run things like this is 1993. I'll openly admit that maybe I trusted in this process too much, but as you can read, I did follow things closely and was well aware of the location we were in the scheme of the overall process.
Agree to disagree.