Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Carl;
I may be inclined to agree with you depending on what happens at UCAL. Like I said, I am not sold on the inability of ALPA, and their insistence that this cannot be brought back to the mainline side. IMO what makes UCAL different is that their entire pilot group wants the flying back. Given this stance we will see what ALPA (UALALPA) can pull off.
If you recall I was tagged as being a single issue guy and scope was the issue. You know where I stand on this issue. I have always felt this way, even when I was one of those RJ guys. The best leverage a group can have is when they perform all of their flying.
To you DPA may be just about scope, but my guess is that it is not just about that for a lot of guys. That is fine, but lets be realistic about it.
I would hope that neither DPA nor ALPA would be
just about scope. While that is one of the top (if not the top) issues, I think our compensation an extremely big issue that should not be ignored. This is one of my biggest problems with DALPA. They will not state restoration as an objective. They make it sound like our current situation is a new baseline from which we seek traditional improvements. Anyone who suggests the kinds of increases it would take to even make significant progress toward restoration is immediately dismissed as being "unreasonable."