Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver

Certainly, a person's agenda and priorities influence the conclusion. Or put another way, you use the facts at hand to your best advantage (within the bounds of ethics).



Can you name one time DALPA has gone against the advice of the lawyers?

I disagree with you on the conflict of interest. And I'll bet I'm not the only one who sees it that way either. Are we just all "emotional?"



Ever since coming out of bankruptcy, my "position" has been that our profession and our careers need to be restored to the standard of living we all reasonably expected when we chose this profession. What's your position? If you asked all 12,300 of us this question, what do you think would be the majority answer? (in general... not the specifics) Do you honestly think the majority of us think the value of our profession should be HALF what it used to be? Really?! Why would DALPA wait 5+ years to identify restoration as the objective? Why are we constantly being given DALPA communications that make management's argument against this without making any argument FOR it (us)?




The most immediate and pressing concern for the vast majority of us is pay and scope. I feel very confident that is the case. Having our pay cut by 42%, our pension terminated, and thousands of our jobs outsourced was and is a CRISIS SITUATION. And DALPA has acted as if everything is just hunky-dory, ops normal for almost half a decade now! DALPA appears to be focused on neither pay nor scope. Long term strategic planning is great. But you have to take care of the most important, fundamental things too. It seems perfectly natural that DPA would emphasize this. But that doesn't mean strategic planning isn't on the DPA radar or that they aren't capable of doing it. To be honest, I'm not at all impressed with what I've seen from DALPA strategic planning. If I were you, I certainly wouldn't be using THAT as a selling point.