If we are going to make it that easy to violate our section 1, then lets just decertify and join the student council at SkyWest.

Alpha, ASA had scope over its code. Delta bought its code and it became Delta's. ALPA voted not to apply merger and fragmentation policy (after certain defined terms were changed at the request of the Major MEC's & it was rumored the Delta pilots threatened to leave ALPA had the vote not gone their way).

Management wanted the merger with NWA because of the jihad which would have erupted if they had tried to run it as an alter ego division as they had done before with their regional carriers. When they bought ASA, management did not quite know what to expect, but they received the "all clear" as ALPA climbed on board with the concept of outsourcing, justified through interest based bargaining. That was a mistake and it did not harm the regional guys. Failure to enforce scope harmed Delta pilots. Let me explain.

One result of not merging ASA & Comair was Delta pilots being furloughed while the regionals hired rapidly to replace them. Even you must admit, that is CLEAR evidence of a scope failure when one division of Delta flushes and hires those furloughed pilots to replace themselves at much lower wages. That is what happens when union leadership decides against unity.

Rinse, wash, repeat = Compass. The effect will be the same on junior Delta pilots.

All pilots deserve the same representational effort from our union (or we might as well just not bother).

Frankly, posts like yours typify why we keep making the same mistakes and getting the same results. Our MEC Admin has not learned anything from past errors and seems intent on proving they were right rather than looking at the numbers from the last decade and getting back to the basics of representation. People want the DPA to clean sweep the MEC. While I think that is a mistake, what does a member do when the union is run by people who are against unity?

Look at our election to the Merger Committee - what a head slapper. Good guy, intelligent, but against the NWA merger and integral in divesting Compass. Isn't the point of a merger committee ... UNITY?