Originally Posted by
Elvis90
I'd be more concerned if I were management due to the unknowns with DPA and labor unrest that would hit the company's bottom line. The company is fully supportive of ALPA because it fears change. If it saw an opportunity to cash in due to a lack of unity, I'm sure it would remain hands off and favor neither union.
Here is the main reason the company is supportive of DALPA.
This is important:
DALPA and DAL have close relationship that contain rewards. Kind of like rewards that governments provide to other governments. All aid money is dispersed not to alleviate poverty,
but to purchase loyalty and influence.
Think about that. Now we all know why FPL is such a third rail political issue. We can not succeed if we are not unifed or have effective leadership. We can not be unifed or led when there is question as to the loyalty and influence of our leadership.
I'd rather pay more dues money and cover FPL (with a monthly accounting) than have DAL in the equation. Think of the impact a change like this would have.
DALPA can not effectively represent pilots with the current arrangement they have with DAL in regards to covering FPL. Think about it. That is why it truly is difficult if you cover up the letter head to determine if the communication one is reading is from DAL or DALPA.
Remember all the talk of how many pilots would potentially be hired with the LGA swap and how we should write DC to support it? Was that the company promoting that idea? Or, perhaps Dalpa? Or was it both
?
Don't think for a second that DALPA was "blind sided" by the recent annoucement concerning the mix of DCI to mainline flights at LGA.