"PRONOUNCEMENTS" BY LOWERLOBE AND CARTEXCHANGE
Thanks Pegasus for your efforts to continually correct the nonsense posted in here by the likes of lowerlobe and cartexchange.
The FAAA spends considerable resources in terms of meetings and newsletters etc to inform the L/H membership about all the issues that confront us...unlike any other Qantas union.
However, it is clear no matter what efforts the FAAA goes to inform members on issues, some like lowerlobe and cartexchange will never understand or get it.
Maybe it is because cartexchange might be a former FAAA official who was voted out because of incompetence. Also, it is comical to hear lowerlobe talking about "proactivity" and the FAAA calling meetings to discuss making the L/H division more cost effective. Is this the same lowerlobe who hysterically attacked the JFK dispensation which was designed to make the L/H division more cost effective-a measure which actually makes the L/H Division more attractive for QF to use whilst at the same time not causing any loss of conditions- in fact quite the opposite, a measure that gives crew a high income trip, which is now keenly bid for.
The problem with you lowerlobe is that you don't know if you are Arthur or Martha.
As Eden 99 stated earlier, lowerlobe, you are however totally out of step with the vast majority of crew as demonstrated by the resounding YES vote on JFK.
In regards to your statements cartexchange, you too haven't got a clue about what the FAAA does or the complexities that face the senior officials of the FAAA.
For you to make the stupic comments that MM and AS should be flying and not looking after the interests of L/H crew who elected them, indicate your complete lack of understanding of what the FAAA does.
In just the last year the FAAA officials who you criticise have done the following:-
1) completed the complex and difficult AO EBA negotiations.
2) restructured the FAAA to make it more responsive, less costly for the members, more efficient. Reforms that should have been done 10 years ago.
3) Led on the issue of the JFK dispensation, to protect crew from being compulsorily made redundant.
4) Delivered on the promise to buy a permanent office for the FAAA, saving the members $100,000 on rent per year.
5)Restructured the staffing arrangements in the FAAA, saving a further $100, 000 per year.
6) Created a more closer relationship with the Domestic Division of the FAAA, SOMETHING THAT WAS DSTROYED BY THE PREVIOUS INCOMPETENT OFFICIALS.
7) REVERSED THE FAILURES OF EBA6 AS PROMISED.
8) Developed a close working relationship with the new leadership of AIPA(the pilots union).
9) Developing plans to protect the L/H membership from the new industrial legislation.
In addition to all of the above, MM and AS answer all the calls that come in the office every day. I guess, if there was no one to answer calls you caRTEXCHANGE FOR 1 WOULD BE SCREAMING BLUE MURDER.
The FAAA IS a $2.4 million dollar organisation(just the Int Div), the complexities facing all of us are immense. What you are suggesting cartexchange is that MM and AS should treat the FAAA as unimportant and as some part time venture...that they should go out and fly( do cartexchanges like u do) and that the business of the FAAA should come to a halt.
What a true idiot you are. Hopefully you and your mate lowerlobe will stand at the next FAAA elections, identify yourself and let MM shred you like the previous imbeciles.
God gave people brains..... unfortunately some don't use them.