Originally Posted by NuGuy

Heyas,

I love it when "unity" is trotted out.

It is nothing but a bludgeon to get people to go along with a weak leadership with a slight majority.

Go against the status quo, and you are causing dissent. Speak up with an opinion, and you are being divisive. Offer up alternative courses of action, and you not only dis-loyal, but part of the "lunatic fringe".

A strong or well respected leadership would have no issues with informed dissent or a healthy discourse of opinion. A healthy leadership would have NO problems posting what they are doing, and the cost of doing so. A healthy structure would have a constant turnover of people because they love flying more than polishing a chair. A healthy leadership would not only encourage a variety of viewpoints, but would DEMAND it.

Yet we are faced with polling (done with outsourced labor...hello sweet irony...) who's sole function seems to be pimping pilots about alternative representation instead of making the changes the pilot group has already demanded, which, had anyone been listening, would have obviated the need for the polling.

Of course, the usual suspects are, well, suspected, so why not point out how that mean, old, terrible NWALPA was full of all kinds of dysfunction... There certainly were food fights, that much is certain. But in all my time there I never saw anyone crank up a card drive for alternate representation, or even CONSIDER IT.

Yet here we are, not 2 years into the merger, and there is a good number of people willing to organize such a drive here.

I'm not a DPA supporter, but I sure told the polling people I was. Let'em sweat.

Nu