Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
I don't see that at all. I see that DALPA wants to know how we feel about them. By all means, fill out those surveys, folks. Say NO to CDO's if you don't want them. Say YES to CDO's if you do want them.
What if the survey shows that a majority of pilots want CDO's?
I haven't had time to look at the survey yet. I'm getting ready to go out of town for a college football weekend to go play in the alumni band at my alma mater... so it will be next week before I get to the survey. (Speaking of which, I may be scarce around here the rest of today through the weekend... I've got music to learn and memorize!)
But it sounds like things may not be as simple as you suggest, Alan. I'll certainly reserve judgment until I've actually seen the survey, but here's some food for thought from the L&G thread from someone who says he has done the survey:
Originally Posted by
Sink r8
The problem isn't that they're asking us, but it's a combination of putting a concessionary item on the table AND the manner in which they're asking us to consider them. We're not given go opportunities to specify whether or not we want to go down a specific path. We're being asked:
Do you want to go down this path if other airlines are doing it?
Do you want to go down this path if we can make improvement A?
Do you want to go down the path if we can make improvement B?
Do you not want to go down this path?
You might get 65% of people to answering "no" to a straight-up Yes/No on CDO's, but you might bet 35% yes votes to line up with 8% that "A" is a good mitigating strategy, 8% that think "B" is a good mitigating strategy, and bingo, you have 51% saying they want CDO's with some improvement.
This is exactly the way Prater's guys pulled off the claim of support for Age 65.
This is a very poor survey, IMO. I'm a supporter of our union, but this doesn't meet standards of intellectual honesty. It smells of a few guys wanting OOBS and trying to push them through, a few others wanting CDO's, and whatever other pet items people fought over.
I expected much better.