Originally Posted by
zoomiezombie
Do you really expect me to believe that SSM&P doesn't pay their lawyers and partners top dollar for their work?
Nobody's ever said they don't pay their lawyers top dollar. I'm sure they do - especially if they're worth it.
Originally Posted by
zoomiezombie
We'd be paying the same amount to lawyers we do now, probably more.
That's probably right. That's not where any savings would come from. Savings would come from changing our current model...which is that we Delta pilots get back less than 40% of our dues money from ALPA. That's the problem.
Originally Posted by
zoomiezombie
Put your conflict argument aside and at least concentrate of who's going to get all the money we might save by being independent.
The pilots will get that money because they won't have given it to a national union that gives them less than 40% of it back. If Delta pilots need more for their specific representational needs, our union can ask for more knowing that it will only be used for Delta pilots...not to prop up the unions of our regional direct competitors.
Originally Posted by
zoomiezombie
If we are going to focus on how much lawyers get paid then you should at least point out that probably won't change at all and that cuts off a pretty large chunk of the LM2.
Lawyer pay may not change...but that's a small piece of the wage puzzle at ALPA. Go look at that list again and you'll see that high priced lawyers are a relatively small piece of the high priced puzzle. There are scores of administrative staff people who are paid double the going rate for the same job outside of ALPA. That's a problem, and it is not excusable.
Carl