PG,
DPA is irrelevant. 3400(?) cards and they can't even force thier agenda via jamming LEC meetings? As one MEC higher up I spoke to said: DPA could own this place if they really had the support they claim to. Fact is they don't.
If ALPA does it's job and fights hard for a new contract, continues to brings us solid improvements, and is responsive to the desires of it's members DPA support will fade and we will have a solidified pilot group when we need it.
I am concerned about all the vitriol and us vs. them - we are all us, all DAL pilots, and all dues paying members of ALPA. Some of the tactics I have observed of late seem to be more marginalizing than unifying.
If we need the unity of 12000 DAL pilots going into section 6 we need to win back ~3400 of our own. Not alienate them further.........