Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
On another topic from DPA:
In the meantime, we have learned that a very experienced Pilot Negotiator, Heiko Kallenbach, has just resigned from the ALPA Negotiating Committee. Heiko is known as an asset to the Delta Pilots and it should bother everyone that the Negotiating Committee is struggling to stay together this close to potential early openers. Who will ALPA send to the two week negotiating school this late in the game to go head-to-head with the company's finest? Shouldn't we have Professional Negotiators employed full time right now?
Carl
This is the stuff that drove me away from DPA. For years we have heard how horrible our negotiators are and that they should be replaced. Now one leaves and he was the best thing that ever happened to the pilot group and man are we screwed. Which is it?
Had DPA run a more positive campaign not focusing on comparing our contract to Chinese forced abortions, irrelevant hacking scandals turning into a "federal case" and other bogey man type antics there would have been a vote by now. Unfortunate TC is blinded by his anger and ambition and can't give up control. I keep hearing that there are former "good guys" from the MEC and various positions who have seen the light and are just waiting for DPA to come to the rescue.