ALPA can negotiate anything. ALPA is our exclusive bargaining agent. Not the Delta MEC. The Delta MEC only enjoys it's status because of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution (which ALPA has vigorously defended until now).

That's why another pilot group negotiating with Delta management with the full support of ALPA is a very serious matter, particularly so when the rules are not followed.

All contracts have amenable dates. Scope changes during those negotiations. If we allow multiple pilot groups to write deals with Delta our contract negotiations will eventually become an auction house where the cheapest are used to whipsaw us in active bargaining.