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08-18-2018, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Blackhawk
Man, ok. Cliffnote version...
TM was from the training department.
As MEC chairman he was receiving full-time ALPA pay.
He did not work well with the LXJT side or management.
Some of us started to have questions about his pay and asked why he was not complying with our MEC bylaws, ALPA national bylaws and federal labor by reporting his pay. We were pretty much told to pack sand and mind our own business- his salary was his personal business.
A few LEC reps finally went to ALPA national in an attempt to find out how much TM was making. To ALPA national's chagrin, they realized our MEC was not reporting full-time leadership pay to national as required. But based upon the amount of dues TM was paying, they were able to postulate that he was making at least $240K/year, probably more.
It turned out what TM was doing was picking up training events as an instructor, then dropping the events due to "ALPA duties". Nothing wrong with this, except he was being paid full-time ALPA salary and getting paid for the events he dropped. This is a violation of ALPA national policy- if you are getting full-time pay and pick up work such as this your full-time pay has to be decreased by the same amount. The theory is that he was obstructing the merger of the LASA side and the LXJT side to keep the gravy train rolling.
He then started being investigated by both the company and ALPA national at the same time. He was even banned from stepping foot at the company HQ. He was finally forced to resign as MEC chairman, but some ALPA reps defended him to the end.
I think both ALPA national and ExpressJet just wanted him to go away, so he was permitted to resign from ExpressJet. But the damage was done. He succeeded in ****ing off just about everyone- Inc management, ExpressJet management, LXJT union reps. If it weren't for our current MEC chairman who is well respected (I'll let you look up who it is), we would probably be out of jobs.
TM was from the training department.
As MEC chairman he was receiving full-time ALPA pay.
He did not work well with the LXJT side or management.
Some of us started to have questions about his pay and asked why he was not complying with our MEC bylaws, ALPA national bylaws and federal labor by reporting his pay. We were pretty much told to pack sand and mind our own business- his salary was his personal business.
A few LEC reps finally went to ALPA national in an attempt to find out how much TM was making. To ALPA national's chagrin, they realized our MEC was not reporting full-time leadership pay to national as required. But based upon the amount of dues TM was paying, they were able to postulate that he was making at least $240K/year, probably more.
It turned out what TM was doing was picking up training events as an instructor, then dropping the events due to "ALPA duties". Nothing wrong with this, except he was being paid full-time ALPA salary and getting paid for the events he dropped. This is a violation of ALPA national policy- if you are getting full-time pay and pick up work such as this your full-time pay has to be decreased by the same amount. The theory is that he was obstructing the merger of the LASA side and the LXJT side to keep the gravy train rolling.
He then started being investigated by both the company and ALPA national at the same time. He was even banned from stepping foot at the company HQ. He was finally forced to resign as MEC chairman, but some ALPA reps defended him to the end.
I think both ALPA national and ExpressJet just wanted him to go away, so he was permitted to resign from ExpressJet. But the damage was done. He succeeded in ****ing off just about everyone- Inc management, ExpressJet management, LXJT union reps. If it weren't for our current MEC chairman who is well respected (I'll let you look up who it is), we would probably be out of jobs.
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