It's all a matter of degrees, and any BA worth a penny recognizes when he/she's being played. Stinks point was the most important job a BA has is keeping members employed, and of course give attention to all issues, but if you think minor issues don't get traded off for someones job, you've taken permanent residency in the "bubble of goodness". Might not be right in your world but tell that to the guy who's on the outside with a mortgage. Everything is relative and good BA's understand what's what even if members don't.
And now tell me I'm a whore for thinking like this.
First off, thanks for your response and the respectful, intelligent way you expressed yourself.
It was refreshing to see someone act like gentleman.
It's that approach that motivates me to try and explain my thought process.
I would like to point out that I quoted Stink and highlighted this specific sentence,
"The BA in any local has only one job, and that's to keep people working".
It was the "
only one job" part that struck a nerve with me.
While I understand that you took what you did from the context of the entire post, that is the beauty and the curse of the written word.
The written word is void of inflection and physical expression, often taken differently by each person who reads it.
In saying the BA's "only job", I expounded on that in its literal sense, a premise that I am all to familiar with in my local.
I have had a front row seat to far too many BA's who have embraced the premise that all they needed to do is worry about keeping people employed, turning a blind eye to all other issues.
I have had important safety grievances deadlocked to the state panel, only to have them thrown out as untimely because the BA "forgot" to docket them for 2 straight months.
These same safety issues still persist in the absence of these grievances being heard.
Had the same thing happen with 27 air driver doing ground work grievances.
Of course during these time frames, these same BA's managed to pull several rabbits from a hat, a hat I hope never fits my head.
I absolutely understand that some give and take will always be necessary and prudent, but my comments were aimed at the career horse trader BA.
So hopefully this gives some insight as to my thought process and I apologize if the term "whore" was over the top, but I couldn't find another that illustrated what I was thinking.
