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. Do you think DPA is up to the task and has the connections, money and knowledge to handle it?
So then basically
you feel there will never be a time when ALPA has outlived it's usefulness to the Delta pilots. There is never any reason to question that ALPA is the be all end all of pilots' associations. There can be no fault that cannot be corrected under the current system and structure of the association. Is that about right? Because the way it is going, all I see is an arrogance about the organization in that there is none better.. and therefore they can continue to do business as usual... however they choose to do so. ACL thinks ALPA can be reformed from within. We have been down this road a hundred times on this thread. I disagree. ALPA (national) is waaaay too political. If you ain't one of the boys.. you ain't one of the boys.
Happy New Year
My offer to drive Lee's car to DC so that he has one will stand until he is replaced by the next good ole boy.