"However I doubt that the Good Year wheel and tire shops pay what AA pays, or the contractors who stick contact paper on toilet walls and doors."
Here in NY, they probably pay about the same.
On another issue, how are the officials of the TWU Internationals given their positions? I thought that was done during conventions when the ELECTED delegates from each local voted?
Ok but where is the accountability and the transparency? Most of the votes were done by voice where Sonny or some other International officer decided the outcome. ATD Directors, the Rail road director and the Transit Director are all appointed and "serve" at Sonny Halls discretion. Along with that you have all sorts of other appointees like Bobby Gless and Conley that make binding agreements with the company and are not subject to a membership vote. Most locals are not as big as Tulsa and the delegates are usually elected officers who like I said earlier have to take an oath to the International. If I recall there was one "delegate" from Tulsa who evcery now and then voted his own way much to the displeasure of the rest of the 514 delegation. They gave him a hard time about it. So who was he there for? The membvers who elected him of to secure Burchettes future with the International? By not voting the "right " way he left himself open for abuse and his members had no way of knowing how he voted.
If that is the case, I have commented before, I prefer such an indirect method,, to having some name shoved in front of me of someone from another carrier or even another station, that neither I nor anyone else has ever exchanged words with at my station or in my local. This indirect method is nothing new, it was in the US Constitution until travel and communications allowed senatorial candidates to travel widely in their states. Would you have the time and finances to visit even a small number of locals in your union to get name and face recognition?
I'm from a small Local, I would say that more TWU members would recognize my name than Denis Burchettes or Gary Yingst. With the Internet even small locals have the ability to reach other members.
You claim that a leader has to be a politician full time to get elected but a politician is better than a despot, which is what our system has wrought. Politicians at least are accountable.
Basically you are saying that you do not believe that members should be trusted to choose their own leaders, that you do not believe in Democracy. On the one hand you bring up the difficulties of a union wide election but then how can you defend the current structure where Sonny Hall appoints the head of the ATD who basically has complete control over our contract? How can AA members ever hope to gain control over their own contract negotiations?
Do you deny that elected officers often seek to please Sonny Hall or Jim Little in order to get International appointments? That the lack of transparency in this union fosters such behavior and helps keep the members in the dark? Especially now where most incumbants will face going back to work on the floor?
If we had the TEAMSTERS problems we would probably be better off than we are now.
Here in NY, they probably pay about the same.
On another issue, how are the officials of the TWU Internationals given their positions? I thought that was done during conventions when the ELECTED delegates from each local voted?
Ok but where is the accountability and the transparency? Most of the votes were done by voice where Sonny or some other International officer decided the outcome. ATD Directors, the Rail road director and the Transit Director are all appointed and "serve" at Sonny Halls discretion. Along with that you have all sorts of other appointees like Bobby Gless and Conley that make binding agreements with the company and are not subject to a membership vote. Most locals are not as big as Tulsa and the delegates are usually elected officers who like I said earlier have to take an oath to the International. If I recall there was one "delegate" from Tulsa who evcery now and then voted his own way much to the displeasure of the rest of the 514 delegation. They gave him a hard time about it. So who was he there for? The membvers who elected him of to secure Burchettes future with the International? By not voting the "right " way he left himself open for abuse and his members had no way of knowing how he voted.
If that is the case, I have commented before, I prefer such an indirect method,, to having some name shoved in front of me of someone from another carrier or even another station, that neither I nor anyone else has ever exchanged words with at my station or in my local. This indirect method is nothing new, it was in the US Constitution until travel and communications allowed senatorial candidates to travel widely in their states. Would you have the time and finances to visit even a small number of locals in your union to get name and face recognition?
I'm from a small Local, I would say that more TWU members would recognize my name than Denis Burchettes or Gary Yingst. With the Internet even small locals have the ability to reach other members.
You claim that a leader has to be a politician full time to get elected but a politician is better than a despot, which is what our system has wrought. Politicians at least are accountable.
Basically you are saying that you do not believe that members should be trusted to choose their own leaders, that you do not believe in Democracy. On the one hand you bring up the difficulties of a union wide election but then how can you defend the current structure where Sonny Hall appoints the head of the ATD who basically has complete control over our contract? How can AA members ever hope to gain control over their own contract negotiations?
Do you deny that elected officers often seek to please Sonny Hall or Jim Little in order to get International appointments? That the lack of transparency in this union fosters such behavior and helps keep the members in the dark? Especially now where most incumbants will face going back to work on the floor?
If we had the TEAMSTERS problems we would probably be better off than we are now.
