And management is taking full advantage of this mentality. It would be different if we hadn't taken 40+% pay cuts, lost significant benefits, and had thousands of our jobs outsourced. We might have the luxury of focusing our efforts on improving regional contracts. But now, we split our resources and attention with the regionals... and DALPA carries on as if our current situation is just not all that urgent, telegraphing to management and everyone else concerned that we have begun to accept our profession being worth about HALF of what it traditionally has been worth. No clear objective for rectifying this. No sense of urgency. Absolutely pathetic strategic thinking, IMO.