Originally Posted by
tsquare
You keep saying this. And while I agree with you to some extent, we will ALWAYS be negotiating the most important contract of our careers. From here on out every single negotiation we undertake will be in search of the mythical "restoration". So when is the opportune time to give alpa national the heave ho? With your thought process.. the answer is.. never. So why should alpa national change anything about the way they conduct themselves? DPA may not be the answer. I know that ALPA acts and conducts business like they have not care one about losing us as their source of revenue. I welcome the debate that DPA brings with great enthusiasm. ALPA gets my dues money... like a tax. I am FORCED to pay them. Why should they worry about anything? They don't.. and it shows.
Dalpa not Alpa is who will represent us in the coming contract at the local level. We have some truly outstanding people working for us at Dalpa. The people that I know personally pushing DPA are with one exception I can think of not of the caliber of the people we already have working for us. Alpa will however be critical on a national level.
We will at some point push for mediation. The timing of how soon we are allowed into mediation and who is the assigned mediator will be political.
We will at some point ask for release from mediation. The timing of the release and if we even get released will be political.
We will if released take a strike vote. Things will be 100 percent political from that point on. Do you think DPA is up to the task and has the connections, money and knowledge to handle it?