Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
An excellent and poignant rhetorical question.
My point all along is that our LEC reps start out with the right ideas. But they slowly become re-programmed by constant pressure from ALPA national. Without that pressure from national (both finanacial and expert staff members), our LEC reps wouldn't continually become disconnected from the membership. Any in-house union will do. Anything that gets us away from the priorities of ALPA national.
Carl
Not that this will ever happen but the one way to solve that is to be able to vote for LEC's and the President of the union. The system as it exists right now breeds exactly what we have which is substantial and multiple barriers to change. Thus it will never be changed until the top fights for it. But I doubt we'd see such a George Washington like leadership- one willing to leave power.
But the ability to perform what is in essence a legal and controlled revolution would give us what we seek most in the governance of our union.