Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
This thread seems to just complain about ALPA. How about some reasons why DPA will make our lives better? Not pipe dreams.
- Why would cutting ourselves off from our fellow major airline pilots and making ourselves a smaller group improve our political clout on any of these issues?
DPA wouldn't need to cut itself off from other major airline pilots unless that was the collective wisdom of the Delta pilot group. CAPA is proof of how you can build new alliances.
Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
- Why would we get better contracts? Professional negotiators? We could do that now.
We could do that now...but we don't! Our negotiators are line pilots that attend seminars in how to negotiate. One reason I believe we would get stronger contracts is that we would be freed from ALPA legal's "advice" that is nearly always: "let's go along, and get along, and live to fight another day."
Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
- How can we trust the people who want to run this?
DPA isn't born yet. The people who run DPA won't be determined until after the ALPA decertification vote. Then there will be campaigns for elected office holders. Then elections.
Originally Posted by
Hawaii50
- Why would a smaller group of just Delta guys listen anymore than those in charge now?
This is such a great question IMO. I've witnessed so many great guys enter positions on the LEC, only to have their view change completely once they get assimilated by ALPA national. Without that DC bureaucracy, our local guys will stay focused on what Delta pilots feel is best. Not any other airline, or any other group.
Carl