Originally Posted by
Fly4hire
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.........
F4H is right on the mark.
If the DPA had the power they claim, they could rick-roll any LEC they wanted. They'd be able to claim the MEC, make the changes they want, KEEP the CF money and then pick up the phone to LM and say "do what we want, or we're out of here", which is far, FAR better vengence than simply taking your ball and slinking home.
What's worse, it's a distraction for competent people who could legitimately make some needed changes in the current regime. The whole DPA has "spoiled the barrel" from problems that need fixing.
Nu