Hi PIT!
Could you please explain your love of Rob Wessinger and more over Lynne Caremello? What did Rob do or accomplish in the past 4 years in the MEC? That said Lynne is up Ann's skirt and places phone calls like Miss Cleo to help everyone "understand" Anne. I just don't get it. I see the passion but I don't see the voting record. I don't see where the rubber meets the road with those two. Seen both in action and I would amount Rob to a bad used car salesman that the LGA people can't stand-trust me I fly with em. Lynne is a great person but just like John, Ann, Alin and Rob failed to make any significant mark on AFA the past few years. If you can't be a rep that's going to twist some arms and piss off a few then OUT! I diid not always agree with you, hell sometimes I wanted to strangle you with your designer shawl but I ALWAYS respected and appriciated your communication to memebers.
So please, make the case. I am all ears.
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Well, you know me, and i've worked with these folks very closely on the MEC. The major problem with this MEC is Mike Flores who doesn't bring the MEC local presidents to discuss issues and see where they want to go with an issue.
He pretty much has trained the company to discuss the issue with him and HE decides WHO he will share it with, and what information he will give them. THERE IS NEVER FULL DISCLOSURE WITH MIKE...THAT IS MY EXPERIENCE WITH THIS GUY, and you well know i've worked with all of them.
John McCorkey has to go. I believe the guy has a personality disorder and seriously needs removed.
When you have only 5 bases the last few years, and the strongest presidents are LGA and BOS with only approx. 300 votes combined, they really can't get anything through with PHL having about 2500 and DCA pres so far up the butt of PHL. Anne is afraid of Mike Flores because he is based in her base. So, she appears to me not to want to make any drastic demands or challenge mike on any level. She surely can't recall the guy, and Alin is busy hoping for support for some International AFA position which again he will need the PHL pres. vote. So, Mike F. kissess John McCorks butt, alin does and so does anne. The way the union works is like Congress or rathe the House of Rep. its the rollcall votes you have. This power helps you get your agendas through and if you don't have enough votes, you need to lobby the others to support it, and with this..you will owe them as well.
BOS and LGA were never heard and not supported by the MECP to get their agenda acrossed even though Mike knows his job is to support all the presidents. But, Mike is too busy supporting PHL so he doesn't get recalled by PHL, and to stay in office,since there is now only 3 bases on the East Mike needs at least two bases...so that's pretty much PHL and DCA.
The union within the MEC is shattered because these folks are not concerning themselves with the higher mission and that is to protect the language and group they represent, but rather to hold on to their seats because they just don't trust each other. Company knows this and that is why you guys don't have a merged agreement, and the MEC Chair doesn't arbitrate cause they can't argue and the AFA attorney doesn't want to write a brief. Easy way...settle everything with the company, so this way the company gets the laguage back.
The only hope for these f/as is a strong team. The idea is the change that it will make for the betterment of the entire group.
That's the point and that's the issue. These folks currently on the MEC don't trust each other and therefore their focus is on keeping their seats instead of negotiating a joint agreement orarbitrating lanugage that gets violated by the company via an MEC grieveance. Now, the contract is coming to amendable date at the end of this year. So, the JNC will just fold into this event, but tyou will not have a new contract for a long long time, as Mike Flores does not have PHX support and their PRES will not vote for Mike.. He is just waiting for her to screw up so she can get voted out and put someone in place that will support Mike so he can keep his job. The only hope for Mike is for Clair Burt, the AFA Interntional neg. to get him an International job of negotiating. He is waiting for this I suspect. He will not be the president that will bring to all of you an new agreement...he has no incentive to do so, because if he does, within 30 days there will have to be a vote for ONE MEC President, and he knows it won't be him, PHX has more f/as and I doubt he will get CLt's vote once their is a Joint agreement.
As you know, the side letter 44 which in part speaks to the disabled f/as who have > than 10 years just lost the flying privileges as of July 20, 2010. Why your MEC would agree to alter this letter that would effect such a small group of f/as that was a no-cost item, is beyond my comprehension . For some reason, the company violated the language in 2009 and the MEC rolled over as reported in Mike's latest E-line. The only thing I can surmise is that either the MEC Chair didn't do the research by contacting the previous sitting MEC who negotiated this language or AFA attorney didn't want to arbitrate because she can't or won't write a brief...so, as with everything, they settle outside of arbitration.
I am still waiting to see what settlement he made with the company when he and the MEC decided for a settlement instead of arbitration. The disabled f/as who had to buy tickets have to have their money back. I haven't seen an e-line yet that states how they will be made whole.
But however, going forward this settlement for the disabled f/as no longer have pass privileges...a simple no-cost item is gone for them....don't understand this for the life of me. And it just didn't have to happen. These folks just do not pay attention.
