DAWGS,

Why would ALPA/DPA/APA or any organization expend energy and money to push/lobby for the inevitable side effects of the very same things they willingly voted for, in good times and in bad, including MEMRAT? In other words, if you had the unity, muscle and mindset to do something like that, you (collectively, not you personally) wouldn't have been infected with the mentality that sold the flying to manegement for the express purpose of shopping it around to the lowest outsourced bidder in the first place.

IOW, fix the mentality and it won't be an issue, other than the costs involved, and there WILL be costs. In good times you will have to take significantly less of a raise. In bad times you will have to take even deeper cuts. Is there 51% unity to push for it anyway? If there isn't, then don't expect any major effort to address what was agreed upon by majority anyway. It starts and ends with the membership and what is important to them.