Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
This has been asked an answered a number of times already on this very thread...but I'll repeat for ???th time:
Here's how things could be very different: No ALPA bylaws and legal committees that make rules and hamstring our local officials who do try to do good work. Next, no incredibly bloated bureaucracy...see my earlier post of just some of the salaries paid to administrators. Lastly, MEMRAT votes with honest communication rather than, "If you vote this down, we're sunk! You'll lose everything. Your families will starve. Is that what you want?" The company will give nothing more...they'll shut the doors rather than move one inch more...you HAVE to vote yes for this."
It's that type of "communication" that has led to so many yes votes based on extreme fear orchestrated by ALPA national lawyers. ACL keeps talking about this vote being based on anger. He couldn't have misread this movement more. ALPA national and its supporters like ACL, slowplay, etal ignore the fear mongering that has been the hallmark of ALPA national, while smearing this movement with the epithet of "anger."
Carl
You're making a couple of valid points, and I would support a reform of ALPA in general. In particular, there needs to be a solution to the balance of power with the regional crowd. Evidently, CAPA isn't the answer, since they're not "exclusive" to mainline, and DPA is not very tempting since their first steps have been botched and amateurish so far. The other problem is that it doesn't appear it's anything but a revisit of the recall attempt in C44. We've
already been lead by this group, before your time, and we still have "LOA 44", and "Love, Joe K" tattooed on our red a$$es in cigarette burns.
As far as this movement being based on anger, I have to completely agree with ACL. The poor communication at DALPA, combined with an almost universal dislike for Prater and anything that looks remotely like an administration of any kind rigth now, have left the field ripe for anyone old snake-oil salesman to get in.
Enter DPA.