Originally Posted by
pilotc90a
Well, ALPA finally addressed DPA head on. The most disapointing thing in their latest missive was this one:
Since the DPA repeatedly states their “(i)nfluence (will be) used solely for Delta pilot mandates,” it may be they are unclear that the organization they wish to join, CAPA, represents mostly pilots in competition with Delta pilots, and many of those fly regional jets. This would appear to support the idea of a national professional organization like ALPA.
Doesn't ALPA represent pilots that are in direct competition with us? and doesn't ALPA also most represent regional pilots?
Why did that memo sound like it came from the White House press room?
I think it means that any union, association, or group that wants to represent enough pilots to have critical mass greater than a single group, and leverage to sit down at the table when policy is crafted, by definition has to also represent other groups.
But we already knew that.
It's one of the juiciest red herrings to be sure, because we are all mad about the (self-inflicted) RJ outsourcing problem, so the DPA would have you believe that it wouldn't feel like we have to work with those groups after we got rid of ALPA. But CAPA deals with them, ALPA deals with them, and it's generally better that way.
Just doesn't
feel better.
The root of the problem is the fact we got drunk one decade or so, and fathered all these little RJ groups. We wish we didn't, but we did. Now they're in the family. Kicking them out of the house doesn't delete their presence, or lessen their danger to us.