Originally Posted by
76drvr
IMO, your hearts in the right place, but your aim is off. We don't have outsourcing because of anything the Pinnacle pilots did with regards to the Bridge Agreement. We don't have outsourcing because of our Admin Manual or C&BLs. We don't have outsourcing because of our ALPA President. We have outsourcing because it's allowed in our contract, which was negotiated and ratified by Delta pilots. It's just easier to cast the responsibility elsewhere.
Exactly.
It's been my observation over the many years I've volunteered to help out at DALPA, there is not a "Leadership" problem, there is a "Folowership" problem.
That problem is, the membership at large, i.e. the Silent Majority, isn't ever going to put down their golf clubs and pick up a "Delta Pilots Are ON STRIKE" sign. Heck, we can't even get most of them to vote for their own LEC reps, never mind show up at a Union Meeting.
Back in about 1996, when I was on the BOS base SPC, I was told at a meeting "There are 20% who will always vote NO, and 20% who will always vote Yes, it's the apathetic 60% in the middle we need to work on."
The problem with changing from ALPA leadership to DPA leadership is, you'll still have that same apathetic 60% in the middle. Good luck motivating them to do...anything.