Originally Posted by
FDX1
Did you miss the previous paragraph that Fred wrote or is it just that sentence that you concentrated on. It seems to me that we should be more concerned about the 'real issues' rather than taking pot shots at the folks trying to improve our Contract.
Or at least be more concerned with doing something if they're this ****ed vs. flailing around. Less than a year ago, the majority of this board didn't even know that the membership cannot recall a MC, or even what the challenges involved in successfully accomplishing a recall are. I still think our general knowledge of the latter is weak, and as such we will continue to read pointless, angry fist at the sky comments demanding that people simply resign because 'everyone knows they should' or lamenting procedures that went out with the FPA.
In many respects, it doesn't bother me though because the vast majority of the people who want to change the principals, seem to have little clue on who the real 'bad guys' are, who they would replace them with, and how to accomplish it in a manner where we still have a working MEC not divided by factions and alliances that would go largely unseen with our pilot group due to our base structure. Replacing people just to replace them is just as inane in union business as it is in politics. Albie's recent post about DW the other day was one of the more interesting ones to me, because it gave an actual glimpse into things from a MEC perspective and quite frankly glimpses from MEC and committee chairmen and members probably provide the best insight into what is or isn't going on and what should be done. Personally without any additional info, I'm just as neutral on what should be done as I was a year. Perhaps the people who are squawking the loudest about change/resignations/ignoring ALPA/etc could actually do some of the leg work to achieve what they want instead of b!tching here
(P.S.I know that there are few here who have tried.)