Originally Posted by
76drvr
Meet and confer never caused the outsourcing, so I don't follow your logic.
This is the first Section 6 where the "meet and confer" mandated process will be utilized. How can you say the above?
Originally Posted by
76drvr
I'll keep an open mind, but if the DPA is claiming that it was having RJ pilots at ALPA that caused the outsourcing then that is cheap rhetoric and nothing more.
That is not what DPA is saying. What DPA is saying is that because we are members of ALPA, we are forced into a multi-step "meet and confer" non-transparent process to formulate our own opener regarding the upcoming Section 6. If we weren't affiliated with ALPA, we would have to meet with nobody except other Delta pilots in the formulation of our Scope opener. That's simply a fact.
Originally Posted by
76drvr
The RJ guys didn't vote on our contract, we did. Delta spinning off Compass, Mesaba and ASA wasn't a union decision and neither was cutting CMR to 44 aircraft.
DPA has never said anything to the contrary that I've ever read.
Carl