Originally Posted by
Nevets
Ok, what about my comparison to a city council? Of did you work on your city council as well?
You can always check the agenda items of the Executive Board and Executive Council via the My ALPA link at ALPA.org.
Or you can just sign up for all the blastmails at the same website. A lot of this was out before the voting even commenced.
By the way, this was not something decided by MECs. It was decided by all the individual reps.
I havent talked to a single pilot that was for this, besides a union rep, so there is obviously a communication error, which is strictly a union rep issue, not a pilot issue. Not saying that I am totally against it, but it is the representives responsibilty to keep us informed on the happenings of the union, and their resposibility to include us all in the medium in which this is represented. I shouldnt have to go SEARCH for the issues. I pay for this and it should be afforded to me and rest of the group. This was back doored no matter how you look at it. Also the thing that bugs me was that there was no statute of limitation that was placed on this issue, which means this was going to be permanent, which should require a vote of the masses, not a personal conviction by the "courageous union reps: