Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Carl,
We can evaluate this objectively by analyzing a recent representational failure that threw half our profession into concessionary bargaining. I pruport that there is no real difference in administrations and there will be no difference until we either change counsel, manage them or learn to place their advice in proper perspective. I dare say there are few Delta pilots who have employed a legal team before ... it just isn't experience common to many in the pool of experts we have to draw from.
I agree almost completely. Where I differ is that I know the only way things will change is to remove our current legal "advice." ALPA national lawyers do not represent pilots...we are not even their clients. ALPA national is their client. It is this incestuous legal advice that continually sways good people to make terrible decisions for our pilot group. We will NEVER get rid of that legal team without detaching ourselves from ALPA national. Never.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Tim O'Malley facilitated another pilot group negotiating with Delta pilots to contract for Delta flying. When the news on Pinnacle broke, his reps asked him to address the issue ... his answer to proposed evaluations was, "NO." He went on to belittle those Reps who had expressed concerns. Worse, his response was that other pilots negotiating Delta flying was none of our business.
I know dude. There's no question O'Malley did the wrong thing. All you could do is call him out on it. He didn't listen, and the new reps correctly cleaned house.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Kingsley Roberts took office and inhereted the problem (problem of the Delta pilots). He listened politely (very bottom up) and his position was the same as Lee Moak's (who authorized the end run around our MEC) and Tim O'Malley (who facilitated our representational irrelevance). The end state was just as top down as ever.
Correct again, but it's not the issue we face now. Far more important now is the subversion of our process by this well coordinated attack on the will of our pilot group. Process...not people.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
All three of these men had the same answer to a critical question involving the representation of Delta pilots.
Any three of these men should have put Delta pilots first with Delta management. Any one of these men could have robbed the DPA of the central plank of their platform, all three failed to do so.
100% correct.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I'm a safety guy. So, if we had three accidents due to structural failure, wouldn't we concentrate on the single point of failure common to all three losses?
Yup, but we think like engineers...not like politicians.
Carl