Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
You ask false questions that demand the impossible. Do you not think others notice? DPA does not currently represent the pilots of Delta. Therefore, DPA can't prove ANYTHING to you through definitive action on behalf of Delta pilots. It's impossible.
Your other demand that DPA supporters work within ALPA to change ALPA fails to understand that we have no interest in wasting our energies. You believe in ALPA, so you don't understand how anyone could think of it as wasted energy. I understand that. We don't agree. Most DPA supporters are completely finished with ALPA and see it as totally broken, corrupt, and now guilty of selling out its own members. I want my energies totally devoted to decertifying ALPA.
Again, I don't know if you really want to understand or just ask your rhetorical questions. But I've given you the answer.
Carl
I ask legitimate questions. If you (and the DPA bretheren) feel the SWAPA C&BL are so superior, get you and your DPA gang together and send up a resolution from multiple LEC's that seeks to implement one or two aspects of the apparently "oh-so-superior" SWAPA C&BL.
If a "DPA supporter" backed group can't muster enough horsepower to even accomplish a simple "democratic function" within a representational structure, what on God's green earth makes you think that a "DPA organization" is able to ADMINSTER and OPERATE an entire representational labor organization.
You DPA'ers can't lose on doing something like this!!! If you are able to muster the troops to send up a resolution calling for a positive change on behalf of Delta Pilots, if it gets sent on and passed and implemented, YOU WIN! (and now you can claim to be affecting change that will HELP Delta pilots).
If it passes the LEC but gets whacked at the MEC level, NOW you have fodder for your campaign literature.
The only downside for DPA supporters is if the resolution gets rejected at the LEC level. That would show that the DPA supporting pilots in that domicile aren't necessarily willing to put there money where their mouth is......
What are they waiting for?
(As an aside, your "I know" response was well written. We are both right.....)