Originally Posted by
Fly4hire
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.
It's not that we CAN'T force the agenda, it's that most of us see it as a complete waste of energy. Through its national bureaucracy, ALPA has set up a system that takes many years to change. And in the case of the DTW LEC resolutions regarding flight pay loss, ALPA national just flat out ignores them. What are you going to do...sue them?
Originally Posted by
Fly4hire
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 think you are correct. But I'm nearly certain that ALPA will not do this. I believe ALPA will maneuver for more scope erosion and the lowest possible pay increases for major pilots. But we'll see.
Originally Posted by
Fly4hire
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.........
You're right, but I wouldn't worry about gathering DPA voters back in should this vote fail. I'm one of the first members of DPA and I still strongly support this effort. I think ALPA is an utterly unfixable organization. But if DPA loses, I'll rally around the other majority that wanted to keep ALPA. I wonder if the same could be said if DPA wins.
Carl