Stop Positive Space A5 Travel for Retiring Union Officers‏

The Company has no motivation to do the right thing in this instance. Why not offer our union leadership as many special benefits as possible? It is in the Company's interest to bribe our officers. It is in our membership's interest to STOP it! I urge all of my fellow APFA members to join together in protest of this blatant and immoral reward given to those whom we entrust to bargain for our livelihoods! If they continue this practice - giving premium to securing their own retirement at a higher value than what they have secured for the membership, nothing but harm to the membership will result. Refusing additional recompense should simply be a matter of good faith from our leadership. Correcting this conflict of interest from its inception will begin to provide definition to our leadership's true purpose and resolve any doubt that their fiduciary duty is involate. Any protest the membership has which is met with refusal, should and WILL become highly suspect. In a membership so dramatically divided, the only RIGHT THING TO DO is to regain our trust and UNITY in whatever way possible. Anything separate from our membership's direct interest has no true place from which to assert authority to negotiate on the our behalf.  With time, this power entrusted to our leaders will inevitably dissolve. unless a decision is made to stop this wholly inappropriate practice.

It is simple: What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Once a retiree, always a retiree and that means D2R for all retirees.  The A5 should be exclusive to working active board members while traveling to and from Union duties and at no other time.