Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
A little bit of both. Fear unified the pilots and justified the sale of junior pilot jobs to fund benefits (or fewer cuts) to the preferred group of pilots.
Dealing one pilot's job for another pilot's pay destroys unity. While Carl and I are of a like mind on scope, I've not seen anything from the DPA which suggests a departure from the way ALPA evaluates and bargains. For the DPA to be credible to me, it would need to renounce ALPA's acceptance of distributive bargaining and educate prospective members on unity and basic unionism.
Just my opinion, based on the review of ALPA publications which justified their positions on scope.
The DPA is all about unity..... of Delta pilots. That is the whole premise it seems.
How that would play out for scope logically would play out to ringing the outsourced flying back in. Or, for doing whatever it could to bring more compensation to the current DL pilot list.
That would remain to be seen until the motives come to light.
Regardless, I'm all for making ALPA fight for my support.