Originally Posted by acl65pilot

The difference is that there were company officers in the crew room meeting. Go talk to AirTran guys about this one. I know two that were fired for venting when their VP was in the crew room. Might not happen here with the current leadership, but a policy and a practice needs to transcend specific people. Having a video taken of a video feed would accomplish the same thing as someone standing in the room.

The difference is that many ppl speak their minds at an LEC meeting and more than likely would not do so if it was being taped and fed to a video feed for all to see and record.

It is not to shut you up. I am telling you what the issues are associated with this sort of medium. It is not as easy as I initially thought as well. Heck I am for it, but I would hate to just implement something that caused unforeseen consequences like this. I know for a fact that my reps and National are doing more than just taking it under consideration.

Things that I have suggested are two meetings on different days in a LEC meeting month.
Meetings at the airport in some conference room. (Proving to be quite difficult to obtain one of these by the way)
Discussion on a by-law change for what a proxy is, and the ability to use them for resolutions only on the agenda. (Most guys carrying someone's proxy agree with the persons they are carrying)

Carl likes to make things seem simple, and at one time I agreed with most of that. Now that I have some experience with some of these ideas and the issues associated with them, I tend to agree that the answer is not always the simple one. Our companies employ the best and we need to be realistic about them and their abilities. On one hand we hear the argument that we need profession negotiators and on the other we are being told complex answer are generally BS. Well, which is it?

I tend to think that there are a few easy answers but when talking about something like a taped meeting, we need to look at the dangers. Pilots at Air Tran have proved what speaking their minds can do for one's career. No one would want that unintended consequence here. Guys get heated in these LEC meetings and they should not have to worry about their vent making it to You Tube or back to their company.