Yes. As usual you don't seem to remember MOU I which was pulled by the company anyway. Each rep has a duty to evaluate this things and send them out. I know, you don't like them but CLT pilots overwhelmingly do.
Charlotte Domicile Update February 22, 2013
Charlotte Domicile Update
We are frustrated and tired of the two battlefronts we continually face. The management that just convinced us to give up our scope for pennies on the dollar is a worthy enough opponent alone, but we must also defend our pilots from current union leadership that has assisted management in accomplishing their goals of devaluing the provisions of our contract without nearly adequate returns. We believe the leadership of our union has effectively stonewalled our efforts and prevented the use of appropriate resources while assuring at every turn, that our leverage was undermined and ultimately squandered. We failed to attain anything close to the maximum returns for our pilots, yet we enhanced and enriched this merger deal for many others. We are not so much complaining, but just explaining what is and has been occurring behind the scenes and expressing our frustration to you. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. We can also report that the CLT recall attempt was extremely harmful in our effort to get you adequate returns. It couldn't have happened at a worse time, and we are sure that management is delighted with the actions of the pilots who were behind it.
If there had not been a recall attempt would the CLT Reps have allowed us to vote on the MOU?
Again, if Jack Stephan and our MEC simply would have read Flying the Line Vol. I and II ALPA would have been off the property after BK II for their failure to coalese the industry rank and file. If ANY union could control the pilot business product we'd all be better off as a group.
I agree with Jake on this one. Had there not been a recall underway, the CLT reps would have found a way to block a vote and send it back to the table...warnings to the contrary be damned. I'd spend that money again in a second. The CLT pilots have spoken however. They want this kind of leadership. They want turmoil at the BPR level. They want the hardliners in place to show the company who's boss (right.....). I've talked to AA pilots since then and they cannot understand why everyone wouldn't want this deal and a guaranteed second shot of negotiations for a joint contract. This latest rag, put out by the CLT reps is nothing but more division, leveled at the current USAPA leadership. I for one will be SO GLAD when USAPA is no more. We don't deserve any kind of power because we aren't smart enough as a group to handle it. History proves it. APA will certainly be a better alternative.
According to the MOU, we should have never started voting. We had the upper hand to wait and see if the AMR board was going to approve the merger. That. however, was given away. Tis all behind us now, time to move on!
Poor little nic. She wants the nic, but nic can't get the nic. And it is because of the nic that we could not get a contract that would allow nic to use the nic. Nic thinks the nic is in currently in effect, but no effect is so far a result of the nic, except that nic still cannot use the nic.
I agree with much of your post, however you can have checks and balances without the back biting, knife throwing and undermining that is going on between the CLT reps and the officers. It is all designed for one thing IMO...to make McKee king.
