Originally Posted by
Reroute
Barely breathing!
YGTBSM, DPA was spawned 8 months ago, they pretend to be able to represent 12,000 professional Delta pilots in as little as 5 months and enter into section 6 negotiations shortly thereafter. To date, after 8 months, all they have is a webboard. No Constitution and By-Laws, no committee structure, no financial statements, no contracts to retain aeromedical services, professional negotiators, pilot representation, no transparency whatsoever. They haven't even had an organizing meeting in Atlanta, or any other Delta pilot base as near as I can tell. What's so hard about renting a room and inviting pilots to attend a meeting?
If they can't even do the simplest thing, like have a meeting, do you trust them to be able to actually represent the Delta pilots on day 1, which they claim can be as early as May? What a joke.
As much as I hate to agree with you, I think that is all valid criticism. But what I do
not want to see going forward more than anything else, is a continuation of DALPA's total lack of a clear objective. Many of us think that objective should be restoration of the standard of living we expected our careers to have when we got into this in the first place. DALPA acts as if we just have to live with the dramatically lower standard of living and be happy with whatever meager gains we can get as they fall into our collective lap. There's no sense of urgency or even any real acknowledgement of our situation and what it would take to correct it. Absent that, I'm willing to take my chances on a relative unknown like DPA that at least acknowledges the problem and seems to want to correct it. But, if DPA doesn't address most of the criticism you state above (and do it soon), I doubt it's ever going to get off the ground. Maybe at the very least this whole thing will serve the purpose of providing a much needed wakeup call for DALPA. One can always hope!