Originally Posted by
sweptback
No, I'm sorry, you don't pay for people to spoon feed you issues. You are supposed to take an active role in furthering your career.
You pay taxes, but do you expect your lawmakers to personally seek out your opinion every time they vote on a bill?
There are many methods to see what's going on. You're just not taking advantage of them.
Lawmakers work for the collective good of the whole general population.
Lawmakers are paid for their work.. even if nothing gets done.
Lawmakers number one job is being re-elected.
Lawmakers have EVERYBODY as a customer/client/constituent
ALPA is supposed to work for the betterment of just one profession.
ALPA MEC & LEC are volunteers... and expect to accomplish things
ALPA reps number one job is bettering the profession... if that is done, the re-election takes care of itself.
ALPA reps have just their own airlines pilots as customers/clients/constituents
Yes, we do have internet access to information now, can get onto email lists, can listen to teleconferences but that does not absolve ALPA from this issue. Something such as a constitutional change should have been an all out campain by staff to ensure EVERYBODY knew this was going on, and so that everybody could contact their reps, by voice, phone, email or in person. Was there any directive from ALPA national that this be posted on ALL union bulletin boards for XX number of days? Things could have been handled much better... I am just glad it failed, although I am surprised at how many wanted this to pass.
If you are saying that we as ALPA paying dues members should not expect anything more than we do from any run of the mill polititician, then you should not be in office.