Originally Posted by
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how much does a distrust of ALPA factor into the DPA drive? I don't think I have a single friend who signed a DPA card that uttered "I got screwed" or "the contract didn't go the way I thought it should" or "I didn't lIke the SLI " or "I expected to be in the tophalf of the ER list by now and since I'm not i blame ALPA". Pilots are smarter than that. They (my friebds) all did it because they don't trust ALPA to be out for anyone but ALPA.
I signed up after the RAH debacle.
Exactly. I don't know anyone who supports DPA because they think they "got screwed in the merger" or who thinks the SLI should be revisited... or any of the other ALPA talking points on the subject. That's a red herring used by ALPA to try and scare people away from DPA. Everyone I know who supports DPA (and it's interesting because just about every First Officer I fly with has a card in and supports DPA) does so because they want our representation to be working toward getting our profession and our careers back on track. They are dissatisfied with ALPA because of basically two things:
1 - ALPA has allowed (even supported) a tremendous amount of outsourcing that has cost a lot of Delta pilot jobs and caused our career advancement to be significantly stagnated.
2 - ALPA has no objective for pay restoration. From all indications, ALPA believes that bankruptcy was a reset and that we have to get "reasonable" improvements from that new baseline, which of course cannot possibly get us back even near pre-BK buying power in any reasonable amount of time.
Now will DPA adequately address these issues? Who knows? But many of us have seen enough from ALPA to know that they will not adequately address these issues because they have clearly accepted many of these changes to the value of our profession as the new status quo or "new reality."