Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Great talking point Carl, really, right on with the DPA mantra. Fact is that any demographic process has sausage making and you know it. DPA does now and will if brought on property. It is not "fighting" your members but moving the process along, and morphing. It happens in every organization, so spare the drama.
Anytime the members have to introduce resolutions to have the union do things they should already be doing, it IS fighting our own members. No talking points, no drama...just fact. One of the most frustrating things about dealing with ALPA/DALPA is the sense that we have to fight our own union leadership as hard as management. That's sad.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Fact is that they are good enough to fly our passengers as DCI pilots they should be good enough to fly here.
There is nothing factual about such an opinion based statement. Delta Air Lines did not hire anyone with 200 hours to fly Delta passengers. If you think that's enough time to qualify you to be an airline pilot, I can't help you.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
This is the lack of unity that I am talking about. You do not want em, great, screw them over and leave ALPA, whiz all over them and their union See how that works out for you while you fight them at the table with our company.
OK drama queen, I've never said any of that. I'm not saying I don't want them, I'm saying I want them to compete with the military, corporate and non-sched guys to get on the Delta seniority list. Not a back door entry to the Delta list because you hired on with an RJ airline with under a thousand hours.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Not going to even respond to that rubbish.
I'm not surprised you don't want to respond to an accurate translation of what you really want. You really want the back door entry to the Delta seniority list for the RJ pilots who didn't hire on with Delta. You felt like you suffered by not hiring on with Delta 10 years prior to when you did. You don't want anymore RJ pilots to suffer as you did. That's no reason to do a mass hiring of many unqualified pilots to one of the most experienced and qualified seniority lists in the world. And to rename this idiotic effort as "unity" is just...well, idiotic.
Carl