In our latest Frontier pilot podcast, our host Jason DuVernay has a wide-ranging conversation with Communications Committee Chairman Todd Bole and MEC Chairman Alan Christie.
We haven’t done a podcast in a while, so we cover a lot of ground, including why we decided to re-launch the podcast. We also talk about:
With the MEC meeting and elections coming up, we discussed how the LEC & MEC meetings are structured, and how the nomination and election process works for executive positions including the Negotiating Committee.
You should have heard by now that the MEC is doing another round of telephone polling conducted by the University of New Hampshire, but if you haven’t, we discuss the upcoming survey, how the questions are created and how the process works, as well as additional tools the union will use to understand the desires of the pilot population as we get closer to entering negotiations.
Time Stamps
01:49 - Introductions
04:57 - Why we are re-launching the podcast and how it will be different
07:56 - Existing Channels for Union Communications
10:31 - RGS Visits and other face-to-face opportunities to meet
16:19 - Volunteer needs and opportunities
22:23 - Social media
32:04 - MEC/LEC meetings and elections
39:43 - How the Merger and Negotiations committees are different
42:16 -Section Six polling and pilot participation
48:52 - National Support and Leadership
56:10 - Dealing with inflation
57:50 - Pilot Centric or Punitive - How a cultural shift could fill classes and slow attrition
