Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Considering the envrionment and the situation, I find the lack of DPA activity in the LEC arena pretty indicitive of their effectiveness as a stand alone organization.
There is no greater joy for people subject to bad management then kicking a CEO out of his own office.
That's the opportunity that the DPA is missing out on. Giving the boot to a couple of borgified LEC reps, dumping the MEC Chair in a noisy special MEC meeting and then firing all of the committee chairs you don't like would be just as joyful, if not more so, than getting rid of ALPA.
It would be orders of magnitude easier than a whole certification deal and you get to keep all of the cash, the MCF, and the neato office furniture on Virginia Ave.
You could then call ALPA National and lay the law down, or you would take your 12k members and walk across the street to the UFXUPSAADAPA...the union born out CAPA.
This is such a prefered alternative, that it leads me to believe that the DPA is simply ego driven, and not worthy of my august support.
Nu
You nailed it.
The mechanisms to change your own union if you don't like it have always been there, and considerably less effort than creating a new union. In fact the current Church of Moak came into power by forcing the recall of the previous Chairman. The fact that 3500+ (supposed) DPA supporters have not rallied to do as you suggest is a stark example of their potential lack of effectiveness as a future bargaining agent. With the numbers they have they could literally own this MEC.
They have utterly failed to rise to the occasion and fill the shoes they profess to wear, and have my scorn as a result.
If anything the DPA has helped DALPA as it now gives them another propaganda flag to wrap themselves in while exercising McCarthyism on any who would dare to disagree with them.