Originally Posted by sailingfun

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.