Maybe this doesn't belong here in the DPA thread, but since we've been talking about it here goes. Meet and confer has always seemed like a toothless exercise, where agreement can be reached, or not. We as pilots tend to criticize that language as toothless when it's in our contract, but now some are saying that it is powerful language when it's in some ALPA negotiating/policy manual. The question is, do we have to comply with the wishes of anyone else other than the Delta pilots? From what I've read we don't. Which makes this a moot point. Where we should expend our energy is telling our reps that scope is a priority and educating our fellow pilots as well. I know everyone is worked up about DCI, and I'm not happy with the outsourcing we've allowed, but I don't blame the RJ pilots for that. We own that and we'll own it in the future. If the Delta pilots are willing to allow more outsourcing, it doesn't matter whether ALPA or the DPA is the bargaining agent. Likewise, if the Delta pilots want to fight to protect our scope, it probably doesn't matter either. At the end of the day the only folks voting on our contract will be Delta pilots.

I'm way beyond my post quota for the day, so I'll go back to lurking. Keep it civil folks, that way we can actually exchange ideas and not just salvos.