Originally Posted by
Bob Wiley
After reading a few of your posts it seems to me you are a fence sitter. You are either for or against ALPA. Cat calling and a lack of loyalty to your representation will not get you to where we need to go. It's OK to question a little but at some point you have to trust those who you elected to do their best. We need a unified front if we ever want to make progress. Fall in solider and quit questioning everything. Greater minds than yours (or more knowledgeable is a better way of saying it) are working on the problems at hand 24/7.
Wow! This is why the DPA is basically on the eve of having the cards to force a vote.
If you represent DALPA, which I am sure you do considering the tone of your statement and that you have 20 or so posts making you an APC rookie, you are pushing the fence sitters in to the DPA.
You in one post:
Offended fellow pilots with your "greater minds than yours or more knowledgeable" ones comment." Nice work. Way to make people see and want to join your cause.
Then you highlighted the one flaw of DALPA that is paramount in changing to insure we keep them as a bargaining agent. Bottom up representation and organization.
You basically stated that the poster and 5000 + pilots are lacking the loyalty you desire for DALPA and demanded that you are "either for or against ALPA." Really intelligent.
Finally, your most outrageous comment comes near the end. It is laughable really. "Fall in soldier and quit questioning everything," and, "it's OK to question a little but at some point you have to trust those who you have elected to do their best."
There we have you again highlighting what has DALPA so perilously close to the precipice of extinction. The top down governing of the association by the committee chairmen and the old guard and the pressure politics they employee to cling to their power.
From your 20 odd posts, it is obvious you are not a line pilot. I'm guessing on two different angles.
1. Management/ or management consulting. Trying to stir the $h1t to create conflict and weaken ALPA by having them expend resources and man hours to thwart the DPA. Keeping the opposition unstable.
2. DALPA penguin or seagull that is too tone deaf and near sighted to know that the rhetoric you are spewing is exactly what is giving the DPA strength. Moak knows that this threat is urgent. ALPA loses DAL, ALPA then becomes irrelevant.
I believe ALPA is the best option for the pilots for political lobbying as the primary reason. Their attitude towards bottom up governance and the line pilot in general is its largest flaw. Just look at how the resolutions on FPL were handled for starters.
Keep it up. Keep insulting the members of DALPA as well as demanding military obedience. That wins hearts and minds.