Originally Posted by
sailingfun
As I mentioned in other posts this contract will be won or lost behind the scenes in Washington DC and the ATA and Company have more money to buy influence. That is why DPA would be a utter failure. They would have zero influence and it takes years to even decades to build that up. The fact ALPA was able to push through a expensive piece of special interest legislation in Jan gives me some hope however!
The battle will be won with a stated objective achieved through pilot survey data, a strategy to achieve that objective, and a union that explains how the pilots can help to achieve the objectives through the best implementation of the strategy. DALPA has done NONE of this because they've already largely agreed with management on the outcome. The only variable left is how DALPA can keep its hands clean by blaming outside entities and circumstances.
One of the many falsehoods promoted by DALPA is to make you think that this is all done "behind the scenes in DC" so as to make you think that you have almost no role other than to trust DALPA 100%, and accept whatever DALPA says to accept when the TA comes out. If they can get you to believe that, you'll stop "wanting" too much and you'll
stay the hell out of the process.
Don't fall for it.
Carl