Originally Posted by
alfaromeo
After doing union work, I have seen many "saviors" appear, those that are going to "be tough", "say no", etc. etc. Usually they end up going two ways. Most end up discovering that it is easier to pound your chest on the webboards when you have no responsibility for your decisions than it is to actually have the careers of thousands of pilots resting on your decisions. When they discover the true responsibility they now have for their actions, they learn that it is not easy, that compromises have to happen, that wanting something and being able to get something are two different things. Reality bites.
Some never get it. They usually spin off on their own, voting no to everything and offering nothing of substance to the equation. Some of those then diminish the organization by writing self righteous pap and sending it out to their pilots. These people usually flash in and out of the organization and are quickly forgotten by everyone, including their webboard cheerleaders. They leave behind no actual work or any contributions to the organization. Many times they show up back on the webboards trying to revive those good old days when they were in the spotlight.
Everyone understands that the union revolves around the pilots.
AlphaSlow, this is just way too easy. A big fat slow pitch down the middle. I was going to preface this with sorry, but I just got to do this... but I won't.
First, it appears your really don't get it. You say that "everyone understands that the union revolves around the pilots."
Really? Was there not an LEC resolution asking for a scope report card passed by the pilots of the union?
What did the leadership do with that resolution? It was a simple easy request that sprang from the blow back that the MEC and Moak experienced after mishandling the rj grievance. How do you just wake up one day and figure out that there are 22 or so too many rj's in the connection fleet? And the communication on this issue. Unbelieveable. I'd give it an F. We would not even be discussing report cards if the MEC had not missed this fact 22 times!
Finally, you can put down all the newly nominated reps all you want as "web board chest pounders." Fact is, they have been nominated as a direct result of the rj/scope blowback created by the MEC. Add to this the ineffective communication that is more often than not a condenscending one way conversation and voila, you have a slate of people that want to vote for change.
Now, you have many people in the union who want to see this change and they are ready to vote to make this change happen. This is going to be interesting. Got to go. Wife and I have a date night with one of our daughters. Priorities.
-Teach