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06-04-2009, 04:28 AM

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Item 7: Request for Committee Volunteers

All of our committees need volunteers. If you are one of the many somewhat selfish and untested among us, if you are interested in committee work, if you have special artistic talents of any kind, or if you just like to chew the legs off your dining room table, we want you to help your fellow EWR pilots. If you are interested or have previously expressed interest via e-mail or a phone call, please confirm your continuing interest in an e-mail to Captain Kaye Riggs, Secretary-Treasurer, LEC 170 at [email protected]. Please put your name and the word “Volunteer” in the subject line.

Item 8: Special Request For Chairman of the EWR Council 170 Membership Committee

Due to numerous foul-ups with membership issues, we are conducting a search for a EWR Council 170 Membership Committee Chair. Duties include many thankless tasks for no pay, a heapin’ helpin’ of abuse, and probable recall and humiliation if union business runs its normal course.

In the mean time, you will bask in the glow of the light of your cell phone screen as you make the requisite hundred or so calls a week to Herndon trying to sort out why Captain Smith, freshly returned from LTD, now owes 1.7 million dollars in back dues or why First Officer Jones, now in his fifth year as an ALPA member never had payroll deductions for his obligations and now has a lien on his kids.

We are not trying to become union collection thugs—it is vital that everyone is in good standing prior to contract ratification to be able to vote our TA up or down.

Item 9: Next Meetings

Please join us at our next local council meeting. Check back here in a couple of weeks for the date.

Our next MEC meeting has been scheduled for July 14-17, 2009 at the union building in Houston.

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