Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
ALPA is a single legal entity.
The conflict is not at the national level. In fact, ALPA's problem is that they cede too much power to the local level who can get the whole of the union into trouble.
Remember - we first sold scope at the local level. National subsequently signed off on it. Nothing was "forced down" on us although we like to pretend our scope sales were the result of outside influences.
Bar; going with national control would only have a chance of working if we could have a national contract and that will not happen until the RLA is dealt with.
I agree that a lot of the issues stem from the local level, but as you know there is a reason for this type of design.
We could give National more power and see where it takes us, but from the tea leaves I am reading, that is the opposite way that our pilot want this to go.