Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Questions that make the DPA dance #1:
"Tell me of any example of the alleged conflict of interest having an effect on the Delta pilot contract."
The DPA will deflect to the Constitution and Bylaws which have always given ALPA's President final review of an ALPA contract. The difference between THEN and NOW is that there is a procedure which clarifies the process.
No deflection required. We don't have conflict of interest rules because you can prove what went on behind closed doors. We have them because the law recongizes humans to be humans. When the stakes are extremely high, they tend use every advantage available. Thus the requirement in some cases to prohibit even the
appearance of a conflict...much less an actual conflict.
ALPA represents a few majors and many regionals. The ALPA president said in his very first interview for ALPA magazine: 'Our highest priority in negotiations is to use all of our assets to ensure that contracts reflect what is best for the industry as a whole, and not be self-interested.' We have a REQUIREMENT at DALPA to confer with the regionals BEFORE we make ANY change to our Scope section. That requirement of DALPA was thrust upon us by ALPA.
There is nothing alleged about this conflict of interest within ALPA. There is only deflection and denial of any conflict from ALPA.
Carl