Yesterday USAPA’s Communication Committee sent an email to members that there was a Special BPR meeting today and tomorrow.
BPR Special Meeting Reminder: October 16, 2012
President Gary Hummel has called a Special BPR Meeting in accordance with the USAPA Constitution and Bylaws, to commence on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 1000 ET, at the USAPA offices in Charlotte . The meeting will adjourn on Thursday, October 18, at 1700 ET, or the conclusion of business.
The Agenda will be:
- Officer Reports
- Interview for USAPA’s Investment Banker
- Merger Committee Presentation
- Closed session discussion with NAC regarding MOU and single contract negotiations
As always, the above is an agenda and the order of the agenda items may not occur in the sequence listed above.
USAPA Communications
This morning at today’s meeting the BPR met with APA President Keith Wilson and the BPR had prepared questions for APA’s president prior to this morning’s meeting, which were placed in a PowerPoint presentation on the wall.
USAPA and the Communications Committee did not have Keith Wilson’s presentation on the Agenda, our union did not inform the pilots of Wilson ’s presentation, and the union obviously had a prepared presentation that they apparently did not want the rank-and-file to know about.
Should USAPA continue to hide information from the pilots, not provide the pilots an accurate Agenda, and have a Communications Committee that does not provide important information to the pilots in a timely manner?
In addition, I understand at today's BPR meeting there was a recall attempt of USAPA President Gary Hummel, which was supported by CLT Domicile Chairman Bill McKee and CLT Vice Chairman Steve Crimi and DeWitt Ingram, but it failed.
Does anybody else have any more information on this or the details on what happened? There has been no information released from the Communications Committee on this significant development. Should the pilots know what's transpiring within our union in regards to such an important event or should we be kept in the dark and allow our Reps to make these type of decisions without rank-and-file input?