Originally Posted by
johnso29
I emailed mine this morning, and received a quick response. My Rep is unaware of any participation by DALPA. It seems they weren't included.
As others have noted, the fact that DALPA was circumvented is a direct violation of our contract, as well as the ALPA National Policy Manual. It is not acceptable, and sets a very bad precedent.
EVERYONE needs to write their Rep on this issue.
Time will tell on this, but ALPA National is the exclusive bargaining agent and autonomy is give to the local level via the ALPA CBL.
Ford-Cooksey requires any part that may be effected to be made aware at the National level of ALPA that the talks are taking place. Local Autonomy provides that the MEC of a given airline does the direct bargaining and that National Approves the local level to initiate it. Nationals check of the process is have the president sign the agreement.
If DALPA was made aware, and the reps were not = issue on the MEC level
If all of DALPA was made aware on the MEC level = no issue but we should sign it too
If DALPA were totally unaware = big issue.
The cure for this is to restart negotiations with DALPA at the table and come to a new agreement that allows local autonomy to remain intact and the C&BL to be followed. The fix is not that big of a deal, but the repercussions may be for those at National that did not follow the admin manual or the C&BL.
Wait and see what transpires, there may be nothing to this. Facts need to come out. The issues that many have on here are; some of the details of the bridge agreement but mostly a process issue. Lets see if the process was followed. If it was not our MEC is bound to rectify it.