The FAAA moved from sussex street to Mascot to be near the members and save 100000 plus a year in rent.
Just so that the luminaries in here who purport to actually know something,,most of the unions are now closer to their members trying to be relevant to the people that count ..the workers on the tools.
Lowerlobe and lurker the TWU moved out of the buildin they own that the FAAA rented and moved closer to their workers as has most of the union movement.
The powerbrokers in the Labor council are more relvant to the chinese restaurant in suzzex street than they are to the average workers in NSW. The trouble with the labout movement is that almost no labor politician has ever had a real job like being a flight attendant.
Most of them have either worked for a politician or a union. And most of their staffers have not had a job outside of the party, the public servce or a union.
The FAAA for whats its worth is regarded as one of the best grass roots unions in the country. It may be small but the leadership is more accesible than any other union in the country and that is the previous leadership and the current.
I think its about time that ppl in here stopped FAAA bashing. Despite all the critisism, while 470 engineers and potentially more will be made compulsorily redundant...no flight attendants have been