I wish I could reconcile this as simply as you and our LEC reps have done. ALPA national has a problem of conflict of interest in my opinion. At the very least, they have a huge appearance of a conflict. Many of the ALPA apologists around here have been saying we shouldn't worry because DALPA is the one that will negotiate our contract and DALPA has Scope as a top priority. Now we have the new DALPA chairman not mentioning Scope. And, we now have LEC reps defending the DALPA chairman for NOT mentioning scope.

Until this is rectified, DALPA now looks like they agree with ALPA with regard to scope being a "complicated" issue that needs to be viewed in the context of "national unity." This troubles me greatly. Call it a helmet fire if you want, but will you be the same guy that's going to be screaming about getting furloughed when the next scope sale happens? And will you be the same guy that will send hate out to the "senior pilots" for not caring about scope again?

Carl