Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Uncle Sam,
Thank you for your response.
What I am trying to convey is that scope is the foundation for our ability to negotiate pay, retirement and the rest of the contract. Scope defines whether you, or I, are Delta pilots and what we fly. Scope defines who our union represents.
Our MEC's only leverage is the power of representing Delta pilots. Our power is a direct function of our pilots. If we outsource, that power declines. With less power comes poorer results and the declining trend lines we have only recent seen turn around.
Scope is a leading indicator for our bargaining results in other areas of the contract. To gain in these consensus areas, we need a foundation.
Very well stated Bar. But also of note is the politics of Scope. I have a strong suspicion about ALPA national's intention with regard to the major airlines' Scope clauses. Many other pilots do as well. The fact that Mr. Moak didn't mention Scope at all in his campaign letter was troubling, but I was told to give the new DALPA chairman a chance. After all, it would be DALPA negotiating our next contract not ALPA.
So I gave O'Malley a chance, and he did exactly what Moak did. No mention of Scope at all. Should this lessen my suscpicion of the motives of ALPA...and now DALPA? If you know that DPA's main criticism against you is the conflict of interest about Scope and dual representation, why would you choose NOT to mention Scope? Even if you didn't mean it, it would only have taken one additional bullet point. I simply don't understand why one additional line was just impossible for O'Malley to write.
Carl