Are AFA Clowns Masquerading in MSP Hotels??

No Clowning! AFA Is Spending Your $$$$$$

Who is watching for signs of abuse and misuse?

We have continued to blog on the potential abuse of your dues and the massive overspending of many of the LEC budgets. As part of such potential mismanagement; it appears no oversight is implemented to prevent certain union officials from "deciding" to FPL (flight pay loss) their entire month!! YOU pay for their entire month and what are they doing for you during that full month of FPL?? Taking a full month of FPL for a smaller base is an expensive endeavor and costs YOU. This unaccounting of such a decision allows the local LEC rulers and fivedoms to make the decision and you pay! Yes, it has been happening.......Ask your LEC if they may reMEMber taking a full month of FPL?? And can they justify such expense??

With the Delta campaign underway, some union officials have been masquerading various FPL under different budgets (separate from their "local LEC" budget). This clown ruse is deceptive and remains unaccounted.....Remember Danny Campbell claiming that the organization of Delta flight attendants was funded by the CWA??? In a round about circus kind of way, YOU are one of the true sources of such funds and you have a right to know. How much is AFA indebted to CWA? How and when are they going to be able to "pay back" those funds?? [Could the "pay back" be when AFA "wins" the Delta vote and increases the CWA coffers by $6.5 million a year? Is this the true reason AFA continues to attempt to "pursuade" the Delta flight attendants with fear-mongering...... the MONEY?]

Let's take a closer look at the NWA-MEC Budget .....

• The annual budget for the NWA-MEC is in excess of $600,000. (Excluding LEC or the national AFA-CWA budgets)


• Office expenses-everything from administration, conference calls to internet costs average nearly $34,000 per month


• All NWA-MEC Committee expenses from Air Safety to Mobilization budget over $18,000 per month.


• MEC Monthly Totals Average $50,000 per month!

The largest and most consistent overage in the MEC budget each month is...........HOTELS. Is it any wonder the NWA-MEC exceeds the $2,000 per month budget for hotels when we consider those responsible for "indexing" our long over due contract are still at work after 8 months! And......these unelected union officials continue to use hotel rooms in MSP; including, Minneapolis resident Bruce Retrum! I guess he is just too tired to drive home each night after a hard day at work?? The clown show continues.... Ask Bruce bretrum@nwaafa.org

This AFA Circus must begin to be accountable to the membership, rather than increasing member's dues!!!

Let your MEC know you are outraged by their outrageous spending!! In the not too distant past, AFA found itself with no money in the coffers and merged with CWA for their very survival.....today the spending continues! Walking on a tightrope, for certain; a balancing the books act in multiple budgets to keep you from uncovering where your money is being spent!!!