Cartexchange, No raw nerve whatsoever.
What is annoying, is your complete lack of understanding. The FAAA is a full time organisation, every day decisions are made ranging from industrial decisions, staffing, financial and a whole range of other activities including many meetings per week with the Qantas, Australian Airlines, other unions and other organisations.
For the FAAA to function it requires its head people..... the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary to be working in a full time capacity.
MM continued to fly until his election as head of the FAAA in March 2004 and AS is also not flying because he answers all members calls im addition to handling some of the disciplinary actions against members.
All the other elected officials fly, and feedback is obtained on all issues from all officials and from the many members who contact the FAAA daily. You don't need the 2 senior officials to fly and bring the whole operations of the FAAA to a halt.
MM and AS and SR take the FAAA seriously, they put a platform to crew who voted them in in a landslide. These offficials have done exactly what they said they would do. They do not have side businesses like previous officials, who used the FAAA to further their own personal circumstances.
The working conditions of crew are far too important to have the head of the FAAA flying and not addressing the issues that he was elected to do.
Finally, cartexchange you should nominate for the next FAAA elections in 2008.... put forward your ideas and see how you go.
It is for no reason, that MM and the current officials have had no one stand against them. They are doing a great job. They are capable and they have integrity.