I found it very interesting, at the YYZ Council meeting this week, listening to my colleagues traipsing to the microphone and telling the LEC that the MEC better not issue a vote on the YTZ flying saying, "Do you approve of the MEC's decision on how to proceed?" Those guys told the LEC not to give us biased information and expect us to vote yea or nay. Give us non-biased information, then let us make up our own minds, based on the facts, they said.Johnny767 wrote:Unfortunately this Scope issue has turned into Base and Color Politics. As all the same old players expose their hate-on for the YVR LEC.
I was sitting there, listening to a very reasonable request to be fully informed with accurate information before voting, about a direction that the union was about to take that would have a long-term impact on me.
Then I thought about the age 60 vote, in 2006. Do you remember the question on the vote? Here it is:
"Do you support the MEC’s position to maintain the Age 60 retirement provisions?"
Nobody stood up then, at any meeting, asking for unbiased information. And nobody has stood up since then, demanding independent, unbiased information. And all of those who could have given us a counter-balancing viewpoint, based on the facts, have since been either silenced or excommunicated.
Nobody at the meeting this week appeared to connect the dots regarding making independent, considered decisions on the basis of all the relevant facts related to the scope question now before us and the age question before us then.
Yet the 2006 chickens are now coming home to roost.
You're forgetting who Russ Payson is, and also that Jazz is now operating 757's for Thomas Cook. Never under-estimate the ability of Russ to get back some of the charter work he once did.
