Originally Posted by
wes3001
maybe u know something i don't, but i've heard the opposite. all the guys down there are from either teamsters local 1224 or alpa AND all friends of the airline division dir david bourne (also a member of 1224). i'm thinking friends that needed jobs and davie didn't have any more to give so goes and finds some for them at local 747. but he has to find an "in" to kick the elected officials of 747 out on the street and replace them with competing teamster local folks. now that freakin' is the lowest of the low. that's INTERNALLY raiding another local.
and to me this whole process is fishy. kick out and suspend all the officers and people that actually KNOW our contracts with baseless allegations from one douchebag that writes a letter because he's PO'd he still lives with his mommy and gets upset when he gets told "no" if his grievance doesn't have merit? And replace them with who? people that don't know my contract, have never administrated a contract and obviously have some vendetta against my local? the whole process is a farse anyway, hoffa picks the people that are going to decide whether these b.s. allegations are true. fair and just? riiiiggghhhhttttt.
how the hell does that help me. how does that help anybody?
It's not about where they came from. It's about their new responsibilities. Everyone had to come from somewhere on this. Bourne is not here as a representative of the 1224. He's now in charge of the airline division. Big difference. He is operating within his orders and the responsibility of his new position. As far as i'm concerned the only way things would be wrong is if he didn't step in and do something. I don't care who he brings with him so long as they do the job. They could have all wanted to be ALPA in the past all that tells me is that they are pro-union guys. So far I'm happy with this.