Originally Posted by
DumboDrop
I think we should all be very concerned with what is happening with the LECs. Call your reps, have a chat and decide what you want to do.
The expression about changing horse mid-race comes to mind. I think the actions of the LEC reps for 165 and 169 are going to send us back to the start of negotiations with the NMB and cost us all a lot of money.
This happened to some extent last round to a lesser degree and it didn’t become public.
In an attempt to save $ in negotiations Alpa decided to save costs on hotel rooms by replacing two chi grievance members with a den Pilot. These two chi pilots were putting in 30-40 hrs of work a week mostly on days off because there was very little fpl to go around. This den pilot wasted a bunch of time arguing with legal (Yale law school grad), wanting to employ a new software grievance tracking system, (after everyone had been trained on Alpa’s system). It goes on and on the time this guy wasted. He didn’t do anything grievance related and didn’t know the contact pretty much at all.
I would get calls from reps. What’s up with this guy? I would tell them bring back the chi members and drop half their schedule if necessity because this guy is going to cost the group millions because you wanted to save a few hundred a month in hotel costs. That eventually happened. The guy was removed.
This feels a bit similar but much worse. And it should have never went public.