You can blame any president you want they can vote with a veto I guess? House of the People (all 435 of them) and the Senate have the power............It's sure fun blaming the one without the vote though?

 

loa 12/13 fall squarely on the mec shoulders. Without him approving them or pushing for them nothing would have happened.

 

https://www.federalregister.gov/pres...joe-biden/2021

I think presidents on both sides of the aisle do a lot more legislating than you a give them credit for, and therefore do actually have a vote. That’s not how the government was designed, but how it has morphed.

Back to our union, in theory, the MEC works for the LECs and the LECs have the voting power. Just like our government, it doesn’t always work as designed. Occasionally a tyrant and his henchmen get in power. And when it’s no longer working as it’s supposed to, people get frustrated because they don’t want to be associated with, or work/volunteer for, a person/system that’s off the rails. For example: the Chris kenney clown show. How many committee leaders bailed in the last 6 months? This is the most dysfunctional and misdirected union I’ve ever seen. Poor leadership is to blame. Hopefully step 1 (these LEC recall efforts) is fruitful. We need step 1 to be a success to get this ship back on course.

 

Zero CAs running for LEC rep in BOS? One FO?

 

Therein lies the problem.

 

What entails being a lec officer? Just wondering from the outside looking in.

 

The majority of the reps who re-elected him turned a blind eye to this. That’s a big problem.

 

Not being a CK bobblehead is a start! A LEC rep should be listening and representing ALL pilots, not what CK thinks is best for him or company! Your LEC is the interface between the membership and the MEC.

 

A buddy I was talking to just didn’t know the time required.

 

I’d imagine being an LEC rep requires a significant investment of personal time. You’re representing pilots at disciplinary hearings, responding to texts & phone calls at all hours, etc.

It’s probably like the old saying, “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”