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UA MEC's
"Orwellian" Theatre
 The membership will NOT stand silent and be dictated to
any longer by the self-appointed Afa International and the s-UA MEC Officers who
were NEVER elected by the
membership!
The UA MEC has chosen to "Declare
War" on over half of its membership. In a libelous letter to its s-UA flight attendants in
the AFA E-lines on July 19, 2012, making false accusations and lies, UA MEC
President Greg Davidowitch declares the CAL MEC and FACC "will be
dealt with". You can
view the CAL MEC response to this letter here. "Orwellian" connotes an "attitude
and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of
truth, manipulation of the past, and destructive to free society," (as described by George Orwell - English novelist and
journalist).This is not "Orwellian" theatre.
This is about the quality of our work lives. We have the RIGHT to tell our leaders how WE want
OUR union to be run. We are an intelligent, educated workforce and we demand the
right to be heard. The power and leverage at the bargaining table lies in the
membership and what WE want, not what our so called "leaders" believe is "best
for us". Empower the membership and let us decide.
WE EMPLOY THEM - WITHOUT OUR DUES
MONEY, THEY DON'T EXIST
The job created the union, not the
other way around. Unions are a necessary component to improve the pay and
working conditions associated with a particular job, but it is the employees
themselves doing that job who are in charge of the union and its ultimate
direction. We are free to choose who leads us going forward - it is our RIGHT and we will not be silenced by
thinly veiled threats of retribution, up to and including discharge from the
Company.
WE DEMAND THE RESIGNATIONS
of the UA MEC Officers who have fabricated evidence and falsified
information.
GIVE US OUR
UNION BACK NOW!
We will never stop working for change
WITHIN our union and empowerment of the membership!
Demand Direct Membership Vote!
NEW UA MEC THREATS
LEVELED AT CAL MEC AND THE
FACC!!
 The accusations leveled against the
CAL MEC and FACC simply have no basis in fact, and serve only to illustrate the
hysterical hyperbole the UA MEC uses when they feel threatened by people daring
to express an opposing viewpoint. It is not surprising that an organization so
accustomed to back room politicking and personal political agendas, would
concoct the type of conspiratorial paranoia so evident in the UA MEC's July 19, 2012 AFA E-lines. Perhaps UA MEC feels
emboldened by :
Article X of the Afa
Constitution and Bylaws (C&B)
"Any member,
regardless of membership status, may be FINED, SUSPENDED, EXPELLED OR OTHERWISE
DISCIPLINED FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ACTS: I. Acting in any manner to
circumvent, defeat or interfere with COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BETWEEN THE UNION AND
AN EMPLOYER OR WITH EXISTING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. j. Doing any act
contrary to the best interests of the Union or its members. Acting in any manner
disloyal to the Union.
The FACC began posting information
in the hopes of changing the s-UA MEC into a more responsive, truly
"member-driven" advocate for WORKING flight attendants at the new United
Airlines. We have NEVER
published any information from the CAL MEC that was confidential, privileged, or
not available on any public resource. Any flight attendant at any airline
can access the public pages of any CWA Afa represented carrier, as well as
financial disclosure reports from the Department of Labor, and full copies of
collective bargaining agreements at the National Mediation Board's Knowledge Store.We support the CAL MEC by CHOICE -
not by instruction, coercion, or direction. We have NEVER been directed, coerced, or in
any way controlled by the CAL MEC. Since the legal merger between United and
Continental Airlines closed in October 2010, s-CO membership ratified two
tentative agreements, with improvements and protections. It is the UA MEC alone
that envisions a long, drawn out process for every negotiations (the last 30
years) including the future joint contract talks. The recently ratified s-UA
contract has an amendable date of 2016 (two years beyond s-CO's amendable date
of 2014).
The heavy
handed threats and intimidation being aired only serve to underscore the lengths
to which one group will go to preserve power, even to the detriment of the
people it supposedly represents.
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UA MEC - DESPERATE?
UA MEC and the LECP of DCA
alleges that a secret FACC page exists. The FACC Facebook page they reference
DOES NOT EXIST! The FACC does
not maintain a Facebook page of any sort, under any pseudonym, acronym or
otherwise. We only communicate through our blog site and email. Any so called
"evidence" to the contrary by the UA MEC is pure fabrication based on their fear
and desperation.
After firing the first
round of "threats" against CAL MEC and FACC in the July 19th E-Lines, the UA MEC
responded to CAL MEC's strong rebuttal on July 21, 2012 stating:
"We cannot, nor will we allow,
underground activities intended to destroy our Solidarity to persist. Quite
simply, there is too much at stake for us not to do so."
It is not a stretch in the least to
compare this recent turn of events to the McCarthy era witch hunts of the 1950's
- and what the CAL MEC is facing are similarly "demagogic, reckless, and
unsubstantiated accusations (and) public attacks on the character and/or
patriotism of political opponents." But like the Army - McCarthy hearings of
1954, this promises to end badly for the UA MEC if they choose to pursue this
course of action rather than simply focusing on the task at hand and preparing
for the upcoming joint negotiations sessions scheduled to begin in late August.
To label what is happening an attempt to "sabotage" contract negotiations or an
"anti-union conspiracy" is paranoid delusion.To paraphrase the Army's chief
legal representative of the time, Joseph Nye Welch, we can only ask the UA MEC
the same question he asked of Senator McCarthy -
"Have you no sense of decency, sir,
at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
Drop the witch hunt and simply do the job you
are paid to do!
SOLIDARITY AT S-CO
& S-UA!!!
"THE SISTERHOOD AND BROTHERHOOD OF
THE TRAVELING SCARVES AND TIES"!
Flight Attendant
UnityUnited is allowing the flight attendants to bend dress
codes by swapping scarves and ties. The idea, according to a United blog, is to
"tie" the two cultures together. The informal program was inspired by Kathe
Hull, a JFK based United Flight Attendant (based on the original idea based on
the hit books and movies, in which friends who are separated pass around a magic
pair of jeans and keep up with each others doings via updates tucked in the
pocket).
Hull kicked off the program by putting two of her United
scarves in a small plastic bag with her name, base city and a note to a
potential "scarf-sister" from Continental. It has caught on like wild fire not
only from coast to coast but in International domiciles. It has also achieved
nationwide news coverage including NBC news and USA Today!
The Spoiler
The
wonderful idea by a flight attendant, fully sanctioned by United Airlines,
couldn't stop the UA MEC from threatening, yes, of all things, to file a Grievance in violation of s-UA's
uniform contract (Section 16i). Because "if the
company will sidestep this part of our contract, what else will they
sidestep?" A terrific idea that’s simple, personal and very genuine
turns the LEC's into supervisors at the domiciles and charged with being
the
FASHION POLICE!
Sadly, the popular consensus is that the UA MEC won't have much luck with
that either!
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FACC SURVEY SUCCESS!!!!
(Closes on August
13th)
GO TO OUR BLOG SITE AND TAKE OUR
SURVEY!
FACC DEMANDS
- TERM LIMITS (for LEC, MEC, and Afa
International). Davidowitch has been the UA MEC President since 2002 and his
third term runs through 2014.
- DIRECT MEMBERSHIP VOTE (amend the
Constitution and By-Laws as was proposed by the CAL MEC at the BOD meeting in
2011 and allow flight attendants to vote for ALL UA MEC
officers).
JOIN THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT COALITION FOR CHANGE AND
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN 2012!
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