Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

I understand your concern, but that's not the problem I have personally with this. The problem I have is that many of these people are unelected, not to mention the "volunteers". We don't know what they do for their 87 to 92 hours per month at the highest category they can hold plus the 1,000 per month stipend plus expenses that are loosely accounted for. If these guys were junkyard dogs with regard to reversing scope decay and restoring our C2K contract, I'd be kicking in a little extra pay for them. Instead, we have just the opposite. Not even any TALK about reversing scope decay, and nothing but excuses as to why Delta can't afford C2K restoration for the pilots. But there's more. They do this while refusing to be transparent about who these people are and how much they are paid via flight pay loss. But there's more. Our union dues don't pay for this "activity"...management does.

So, unelected bureaucrats and volunteers operating with no transparency to manage pilot expectations downward while being paid for this activity by management. That's my concerns here.

Carl

Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

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