Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
Shiznit,
I see some merit in your idea about widespread recalls. I'd jump on board with that with my reps in a heartbeat if I thought it would do any good. But how does that solve the conflict of interest with ALPA National and the info/advice/services they provide to us? How does it make what's best for the Delta pilots the #1 priority and only consideration with the union representing us?
As I've said in other places, you have to
prove to me that "DPA supporters" can change the smaller things first, and that will give me confidence to trust that the aims and methods of a "DPA" can and will be successful in the larger. So far its just been talk and complain, "DALPA su*ks, our way is better."
Originally Posted by
Jack Bauer
DALPA is broken. As another person here mentioned earlier the system in place at ALPA/DALPA is built to resist true change. Many have contacted their reps, gone to the meetings, tried recalls, ect only to be shut out/down. Its time to start fresh with a new blueprint for success. There is just too much fat and red tape to cut at DALPA. It makes more sense to build a structure from the ground up beholden only to Delta Pilots and Delta Pilots alone without having to tiptoe around the wants/needs of the connection pilots who are now currently represented by ALPA.
DPA needs to show me that they will TRY to fix the problems they see at the local level, if they can't modify and fix the current policy manual, how on God's green earth are they going to write one from scratch. Even if the efforts are rebuffed, you've now created a "body of work" that you can use to SPECIFICALLY show how a "DPA" would function and the structure that would be employed! That would give real and concrete examples that the "silent majority" could use to compare one system over the other. Without that, its all just bluster.
If DPA can't even muster the effort, organization and resolve to fix small things now; they will not be able to "rebuild" a large labor union from the ground up.