Originally Posted by
Capt Kochblauch
Yes!! Why can't our union commit to something, anything, to let the company know we're for real? I have seen very little "line in the sand" communiques--we DO have some lines in the sand that aren't top secret, don't we?
DALPA, can you please go on record, so the company knows when it asks for scope relief, it's a non-starter.
Let's see a DALPA memo saying "we will not give one more seat, nor one more airframe, of scope; what's more, we are dedicated to restoring outsourced flying--and it will be one crucial cornerstone of our negotiations, along with recovery of our bankruptcy-driven pay concessions."
Why can't they say that?
They say they can't say it because:
1. It would be like showing your hand in poker.
2. They're waiting for the survey results. The survey results they can't share with us because of point 1.
3. They have to wait until after the scope meetings we are required to have with the MEC's of our direct regional competitors. But these meetings are really nothing.
I say they WON'T say it because:
ALPA national's strategy is to strenghthen the regionals at the expense of the majors, because ALPA national believes raising the industry from the bottom up is the better long term strategy for ALPA's survival and ALPA's prime directive of being the union for all airline pilots. Since I believe most of the MEC bureaucrats have national ambitions, DALPA is in total agreement with this strategy.
But if ALPA actually stated this, they know we major pilots would vote them out immediately. Thus they have no other choice but this shell game of double speak, false speak and "trust us" speak.
Carl