Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I truly believe that if DPA or its supporters organized and even tried to recall a few reps, the action and organization would not go unnoticed.
Oh I'm sure it would be "noticed." Any recall effort would be noticed. Like I said before, DALPA is very good at rallying their political base to get what they want. Too many in our pilot group have become apathetic, given up, or whatever you want to call it. I suspect it's a majority that are unhappy with ALPA but you can't get enough of them to actually do anything to have any real effect. One thing I will say for the big DALPA supporters is that they are active and engaged. I think that's the only thing that allows our MEC to get away with such extremely low expectations and keep the focus off of restoration.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I guess it does not matter because what we have is the group that was always the "checkers" not checking to the level they used to. As you said, they do not even want to focus on keeping their reps feet to the fire.
That's because it doesn't do any good and is a waste of time. See my comments above.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
If that is the road you want to go down, fine, but understand that having a group of DPA's size not unified with the rest of the group could prove disastrous in the upcoming Section 6.
Do you really think that, when it's all said and done, guys who have supported DPA are going to undermine any efforts that DALPA finally makes to significantly improve our situation? Sure, the DPA crowd will vote NO on an agreement that is not significantly restorative. But wouldn't you WANT them to do that? From everything you've said here, I would expect you to do the same! The bottom line is that, when/if (and that's a big "if") DALPA decides to dig their heels in, set their sites on an appropriate objective, and not back down... you'll have no problem getting the DPA guys to be a part of any needed "unity."