Originally Posted by
finis72
My problem with the DPA has been they only attack DALPA and offer nothing new nothing original.
Then you've never read anything on the website. They attack ALPA for sure...and for very accurate reasons. But there are many new ways of doing business listed. What you've said is just not true.
Originally Posted by
finis72
Some of their blurbs are pure pandering, populist half truths that only a few pilots on the IQ level with Purple Dank would swallow whole.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me believe you never signed a card or ever went to the website. I don't recall anything from you other than 100% full throated ALPA support. That is of course your right, I just don't remember even the smallest thought of an independent union from you.
Originally Posted by
finis72
I agree we aren't yet paid what we are worth but I do believe we are near the top of US passenger airlines.
This is where you are so wrong finis and your position at the top of the heap is skewing your thinking. First, it's wrong to exclude UPS and FDX. Second, the fact that our pay for the 747 and 777 is
approaching that of SWA crews is nothing to crow about.
Every pilot makes that at SWA. Only a small percentage of Delta pilots make what you and I make. Further, a significant portion of our seniority list will NEVER make what we make because they'll never get there. You really need to rethink your statement above.
Originally Posted by
finis72
You accuse Alpha of conjecture then you turn around and say we left money on the table, that is pure made up horse manure unless you happen to be on RA's senior management team. We don't know.
We know with 100% certainty finis. There wasn't even a hint of buying the Virgin stake or the remnants of Pinnacle. Only the corporate goal of debt reduction. The only reason they were able to make these purchases was because of the money we left on the table. If we had taken that money, they wouldn't have been able to make these outsource facilitating purchases and still meet the debt reduction milestones they promised Wall Street.
Originally Posted by
finis72
I do agree with worrying about the purchase of Virgin and more outsourcing I just don't agree with how that was financed.
See above. By leaving extra money on the table, we allowed management to keep their debt reduction promises
and make these new outsourcing purchases.
Again, we (DALPA) actually
aided management in purchasing more opportunities for management to outsource our jobs. Why would we do that? Because ALPA's mandate is to gain members by spreading the wealth from the have's (Delta pilots) to the have not's (DCI & select JV partners). Welcome to ALPA's brave new world.
Carl