Originally Posted by Sink r8

I see you and T2 have something in common: you both prefer to paint with broad brushes. Many ALPA volunteers are temporary volunteers, many are life-long technocrats that play a very useful role, and some are leeches. The act of volunteerism, noble as it is, does not consider motive. Some "volunteer" to support self-interest.

This is why an active, involved membership is key: it's all in the adult supervision. This is also why I wouldn't support DPA: there is no reason to think this pilot group, which is fairly apathetic now, would supervise DPA any better than it suppervises ALPA. And if the group that wants to promote DPA gets serious enough, then one would think it would translate into presence at local meetings, to promote whatever values they want to promote. IOW, if they got active enough to push a DPA through, they would be active enough to clean up whatever needs cleaning up in the union, and a DPA would not be needed.