Originally Posted by
ancman
I’m absolutely in favor of further limiting the chairman’s unilateral authority. I would even agree that those changes are more important than changing the election bylaws.
But I maintain that opening the position to membership vote would be a further check against the cronyism that has produced such “leaders” as Moak, Donatelli, and to a lesser extent, Hartmann.
As someone pointed out above, the theoretical path to that is difficult, and in reality impossible. You have a better chance of running for the position yourself, or at least working yourself up to it with ALPA work. DH was a council rep for barely 2 terms with zero committee work and he's MEC chairman. JA had one 1 term as secretary, 1 term as chair and before that his ALPA work was basically a committee guy now he's ALPA president.