The union should admit that the current process is broken and doesn't have the support of the crew force. Might as well save everybody the time and effort and shatcan the whole deal. Its not working, and it never will as long as we have independent contractors who are willing to undermine the process. We can sit around here and moan about it all day long but the dbags who pick up DPs will continue to do so until we change the process.

Either negotiate a clause that prevents any pilot from picking up a DP (ie, they MUST be assigned to reserves), or do away with the soft parameters (as previously mentioned) and be done with it.

We look like cub scouts to the company because we can't even get our members to not pick up DPs. The crew force must like them, so let them have em.

I personally support the SIG and have never flown a DP. I don't think our system is working though, and is doomed as long as it relies on the "support" of our independent contractors.