Bob, may I buy myself a new PC and use your name and credit?
No, but the TWU can go and buy you one with my dues.
No one asked me if I wanted to spend $19 , .19 cents or 2cents on an AMFA drive.
Did anyone ask you if you wanted to spend $2 million trying to organize Delta? Did they ask you if you wanted to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars decorating the Internationals new offices? Did anyone ask you if you wanted to spend $345,000 last year on cars?
The $3million for cars, weren't you an officer of the TWU at the time? Did you raise your voice, or maybe resign in protest or whatever?
$3 million in cars? Do you mean salaries? I was aware that Presidents were getting paid by the company, but Presidents are ultimately accountable to the members. I was not aware of International officers getting paid, and they are not accountable, there is a big difference. Shortly after coming into office I asked about the legality of paying the Presidents, I was told by Bobby Gless that Luby said it was legal. Since then I have come to suspect what they tell or told me.
As to the organizing drive at Delta, was there a plan to charge the potential new members from Delta to reimburse the TWU?
I dont know. Who should pay for it, us? I do know that the International only gave us loans to start up the new Locals.
How many people make voluntary contributions to AMFA? It seems that it is mainly organizers, who I am sure are counting on being given atheir reward for having funded the AMFA drive.
Ask Delle how many Associate members AMFA has. I'll bet its a lot more than the TWU has. And how many TWU "true believers" would give any of their own time or money towards the TWU? I often heard officers complain about membership participation at meetings however they were paid for being there, the members werent.
I would be very disappointed if Dave, Buck, you and the other true believers were not appointed to the transition team. I just hope it does not happen. At NWA the origional pied pipers can't seem to find their way back to their tool box after being voted out.
Actually it hasnt come up. As far as returning to their tool boxes, I never left, even when I was in office, so when they removed me it just meant that I had less work to do. It has actually been a relief and I have more free time.