Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Who flies the majority of Delta's domestic brand - Delta or DCI + Code Share?
By what metric? Seats? Seat miles? block hours? Segments?
A majority of
what?
(I would like to know the percentages also and I admit that I'm too lazy to do the research, but I want to know what the metric is being used, not just a cryptic "yes or no".)
Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Another great example of how our DALPA MEC bureaucrats operate and communicate. It's almost as if every day is all about: "How can we fool them today? How can we better obfuscate in our member communications?"
Really? Feeling a little more extreme today than normal Carl?
Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Slowplay's latest attempt at defending the indefensible is to ask for examples of other organizations that govern themselves differently than does DALPA. The answer of course is that most all corporations govern themselves far differently (and with greater transparency) than DALPA. Slowplay knows this too, so that left him with the need to portray the MEC committee structure and members as "middle managers" or "civil servants". Our MEC committees are the total power and influence within our union. They are equivalent to a corporation's executive leadership team. Nobody gets appointed to an executive leadership position without board approval. Very few board members get to be board members without being elected by the shareholders.
When comparing our union to a corporation, the LEC members are similar to a board of directors because they are elected by the members. Where our union differs is that our elected representatives (board members) DO NOT get to appoint the executive leadership team. They only get to appoint the individual chairmen. This is just one of the problems that has led to DALPA becoming a totally top-down organization that has utterly marginalized the LEC reps. This is what slowplay desperately hopes to hide from you.
Carl
Let's try to separate fact from opinion on this one.
The Committee Chairs are not an ELT.
In my opinion, the 3 officers and the 2 EA's are, but not the entire Committee Chair complement.
I would submit that no one has produced an answer to slow's question yet, would some of the peeps here know how the other unions deemed to be "successful" (IPA, APA, SWAPA) operate their structure?
(I'm not saying that another union has done a better or worse job, just wanting to know the structure they use.)