To get this back on the DPA debate and not a scope debate, which we both want;
My biggest concern to date with an internal union revolves around the likeliness of us having to deal with a merger with AF/KLM in the future. (Or SkyTeam becoming an ATA code that outsources all of its flying to airlines like AF and DAL) We need the international structure of ALPA and the place at the table that ALPA and IFALPA give us. That is not easily replaced. Our deal with KF/KLM was possible by the existing relationship IFALAPA gave us. Remove that with the above possibility and it may prove disastrous to our pilots. There is little in the PWA that protects us if Skyteam morphs.
That is why I prefer to work very diligently to fix the issues we all see within ALPA than to take the risk of not having preexisting relationships with these groups down the road. (AF has two unions representing their group fwiw)
Like I said earlier I want to see ALPA given an opportunity to fix these issues before we would dump them.