IAD LEC President demands to know who we are............Really??
Anonymity is not a lack of courage, nor an inability to “man-up,” but rather a conscious decision driven by the organizational philosophy of the FACC which puts community and the collective good above the ego of any one individual.
With only lip service paid to the notion of the collective good of ALL flight attendants beyond their own cult-of-personality circle, it is difficult for the CWA-afa flight attendant sector to grasp the concept that no one individual at the FACC seeks to take personal credit, thereby elevating their own sense of self-worth and “importance” as we see all too often in the so-called “leaders” of the CWA-afa.
The very fact that one LEC President, in particular, has taken it upon himself to consistently attack and deride the FACC speaks volumes of his own personal ambition beyond the LEC level, rather than any attempt to genuinely promote the collective good. In other words, the time he spends doing this is meant to impress his “peers” at the MEC and international levels, when his time would be better spent tending to the affairs of his council for which he more than amply compensates himself with flight attendants’ dues money.
True courage, or “manning-up,” would be to see an LEC President actually support changes to the CWA-afa Constitution and Bylaws requiring “leadership” at ALL LEVELS be elected by the members, and not subject to the back room politicking and popularity contests that currently drive MEC and international officers elections.
“Manning-up” would be for CWA local “leaders” to demand that ALL employees of the CWA flight attendant sector publicly and fully disclose every penny they have been paid in monthly allowances for officers, and detailed, ITEMIZED accounting on the thousands of dollars of reimbursed expenses, now listed on federally required LM-2 reports only as “representational activities.” “Man-up” and demand THOSE changes of your current MEC and international leadership on behalf of the membership, and see how long your union career lasts after that.
The FACC serves as a repository of information taken from publicly available sources, and merely verifies edits and distributes the information it receives from the thousands of readers who care to submit material. We are a counterweight to the one-sided myopia of an organization that long ago chose to put its own business interests above those of the very people paying their salaries.
It is not surprising that the CWA flight attendant sector, bereft of a driving philosophy beyond self-promotion and the economic benefit of its “leaders,” now finds itself imploding – removing an MEC President less than a week before a vote tally on a joint contract tentative agreement that was six and a half years in the making at one airline, and mired in a three-way contract contest at another, that promises to make the America West/US Airways debacle look tame in comparison.
When self-aggrandizement and ego-driven manipulation are the prime motivators of the “leadership” level in any organization, it is doomed to fail and must resort to fear-driven tactics of intimidation and grotesque distortion of the truth in order to survive. On the other hand, an organization that simply serves the interests of its membership can lead by example alone, and has little need to explain itself.
Anonymity is not a lack of courage, but rather the absence of ego – it is only the collective good of a combined work force working until a combined contract with an integrated seniority list NOW – not six years down the line - that is the aim of the FACC.
No one person dictates the terms or direction of the group. That is the very definition of “member-driven” and the purest form of democracy.
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