That language does not impede or restrict our authority to negotiate scope. We have to provide notice, which has always been a requirement in our national association. Our President has always had the ability to with hold his signature.

Our scope failures were not the result of ALPA National, or Ken Cooksey or Dan Ford. They were creations of the Delta MEC. ALPA national was more conservative on scope than our MEC has been. Lets look at this from an "ALPA National" perspective, what did our scope policies for the past decade accomplish?

• Pay decreased. Pilots are whipsawed against each other, lowering compensation an lowering dues
• Jobs were transferred from dues paying members to pilots who were not ALPA members
• ALPA's representational power decreased
• ALPA member pilots were furloughed
• ALPA member pilots suffered stagnation
• ALPA became a named defendant in a number of lawsuits

ALPA was clearly the loser in our loose scope policy. Why does anyone think ALPA wants more of what it suffered in the last decade? Why would ALPA want to reduce dues and lower its power by forcing outsourcing.

Lee Moak did not grasp the importance of unity when he was our MEC Chairman. I am hopeful (because he is in a critical position) that he is starting to get it now. Anyone with a lick of sense would know outsourcing is harming national from representational and financial perspectives. Of course then there is the alleged conflict of interest also. If Lee Moak loses United or Delta, ALPA is toast. There is also the risk of this TWA thing revealing just how great ALPA's malfeasance was in all of our bankruptcy negotiations.

DPA may win, simply by the virtue of existing at the time ALPA implodes under the weight of its own disunity.