Originally Posted by
Hillbilly
I think I understand now. You're looking for documents from National. I personally believe the outsourcing that has been done over the last few decades and the recent attempts to regain that flying (insourcing) has been entirely driven by the individual MECs (local chapters as you are now calling them). I don't think either concept was nationally driven. I believe they were locally driven and local decisions made at local bargaining tables. That's why the relevant information is in local communications. Just my opinion.
I do appreciate you clarifying for me though.
I believe the evidence is strong that it was initially driven by management as a way of lowering pilot cost, then was driven by ALPA national to "fairly" support regionals whom they increasingly came to represent.
Regardless, it is the duty of ALPA national to warn and educate its members against dangers on the horizon. ALPA has done that for years with Cabotage and foreign ownership, and they've done a very good job of it. Neither of those things have caused the job devastation among major pilots as outsourcing to regionals has done. But on this subject, ALPA national has been 100% silent. I believe ALPA's structural conflict of interest is the reason for this silence. It is the main reason for DPA's existence.
Carl