You don't have to tell me...I'm on house arrest as we speak. Having a new bunch of people that are on reserve and calling the union might help. These 1989 people spent most of their career on reserve (the old version) and now being back on reserve (the current one) they are going to raise holy hell. Which hopefully will help all of us. Which is the point I was trying to make. :blink:
While I don't like to see others forced onto this dreaded LTO reserve system I don't wanna hear about how horrid it is for you (the f/a complaining) either. They had the luxury...yes LUXURY around here of being a line holder while many a f/a has no chance in hell of being one. Just two weeks ago this guy complained of how his bills come to $2300.00 just living expenses. I said, "Well honey your in for a RUDE awakening". Better start rightsizing your personal life. It's not that I don't feel for others and wish them the same hell as the reserves but many are already in the hell being lashed and just don't wanna hear it. This job and certainly here at US has made every f/a "out for themselves" only, the rest be damned. Nothing is their problem until that problem is knocking on THEIR DOOR. Well tuff $H!T. No number of more senior people complaining about the reserve system will change anything either. You can have 25 years and go on reserve but ya know what? Your 25 years holds absolutely NO WEIGHT once you go on duty at 12am and transition to reserve. Just wait and see how your treated by scheduling. It's like Jekyll and Hyde. 
The members of a union actually make or break the union not those you elect. Without the membership standing behind those you elect we are nothing but disorganized and dysfunctional. You have no one to blame but yourselves. I do not include myself in that statement nor any other flight attendant that wears a union pin every day to work, who carries their contract and not just knows it but abides by it, and who is an active member. To be an active member all you need to do besides what I just listed above is to stay accurately informed, read the e-lines, and attend meetings. If you are a member of a union any union and you don't do any of the above things then the joke is on you.
So do operators at AT&T. 
Look, we can't get f/a's to band together on a true issue so don't look for them to hold their "elected" officials accountable. I find whining and complaining or every f/a calling the union daily won't change things. Think management here. You can tell them something doesn't work over and over and over yet they will think of themselves as God like and continue about their business. Ya see the f/a's have busy lives and have no time to oust the Ringling Bros. circus we call a union. JM believes himself to be THE best that there is. I'm going to ask this of any possible supporters on here. WHAT on God's green earth has the local done for you? Got a claim filed? Adjusted your time or had a sick call knocked off? C'mon I mean really. That's standard union business on a SLOW day. What difference are they making? Holy hell it's a joke.
Union 101: Your elected President in each council is charged with the duty of voting on behalf of his/her members. If you have a President that you feel is self serving and is not voting in the best interest of their base or members then as members you have the duty to remove them from office either by a recall or when their term is up. If you continue to vote in people who you feel isn't fulfilling their commitment to serve then its time to take them out. The members put them there the members have the power to remove them. As a dues paying member you have the right to call your local President and voice your opinion, concerns and even how you want them to vote. Ex-CLT has roughly 1500 members at MEC meetings and the BOD meeting AC takes 1500 votes with her to cast on behalf of her members. If you want your vote cast a specific way then you need to say to her, do not use my vote to vote for that person or this issue etc. If you are unhappy with the prospect of splitting from the pilots then you need to call your local President and say so.
