ACL,

Respectfully, you are mistaken. The legal issues are clear enough that you surely know better.

• The Statute of Limitations on any possible scope DFR claim has expired
• Honesty is encouraged, and would not trigger a DFR claim*
• ALPA's own justifications for its handling of scope are now being used in an effort with the goal of decertifying ALPA

If one of your students broke an aircraft limitation, then acted like he did not understand he had done wrong, then gave a lame excuse, how would you react? If it was a mistake with imperiled safety of flight, would you let it go? ALPA's mistakes are going to kill it. You and I and the others who understand are going to have to insist on change.

The good news is, change is happening. But, an acknowledgement of the mistake is required to ensure the same errors are not repeated. There was no representational requirement for the Compass divestiture, in fact the representational consolidation acted to prevent conflicts of interest. The answer to any and every conflict of interest is unity. Not unity in the "we drink beer together" meaning, but in the real, structural, we are one list and one MEC sort of unity. The kind of unity which management interprets as "a monopoly on the productive power of our Company."