PG,

You may be right, but it is more difficult to measure those factors.

Initially our association's economic analysis of outsourcing was a political tool to justify the denial of the Comair and ASA PID. Subsequently that tool was used to show credits for outsourced flying. This continued through bankruptcy as political grease to ease some very uncomfortable truths about the effect of disunity on furloughed ALPA members.

When it was clear the numbers had turned in favor of unity, D-ALPA refused to perform economic analysis even with multiple resolutions passed requesting that analysis be done. Mind you that policy REQUIRES economic analysis before negotiations, but the old bankruptcy numbers were deemed more than sufficient to negotiate our JPWA despite the enormous changes in our cost structure pre and post bankruptcy. In fact we never even looked at the various fee for departure agreements.

My question was "what if it turns out to be positive for both the Company and Association if we absorb Compass?"

One thing that appears to be a positive sign was that as Moak moved to national, economic analysis was done, although the numbers (to my knowledge) have not been released to our Reps yet.

Regardless of the data, I believe a union should fight for unity. It is likely the data supports a reversal in our scope strategy.