Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
DAL88Driver,
Your frustration is understood. If the DPA was talking unity, or basic unionism, I'd be interested. But they are not. They parrot the same wrong headed political crud that got us where we are at now.
Okay, you're going to have to be more specific... because I have no idea what you're talking about. How exactly is DPA
not "talking unity, or basic unionism?" Oh... and just because they're trying to replace ALPA doesn't indicate a lack of unity as an objective. I don't think ALPA has a patent on unity.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
More to the point, the language in our contract was stronger and functioned in the case of ACA which was booted from DCI when they started Indy Air. Then our Administration purposely removed that language with the goals of:
- Increasing DCI competition to drive down costs. (At the time the thought was "we are having to take concessions, shouldn't they too")
- Making it possible to sell owned DCI assets (At the time the thought was "why are we investing "our" money in connection operations. Further management desperately needed the cash from asset sales. The sale of ASA preserved Delta's reserves required to process credit card transactions. It was a very near death experience for the Corporation)
Again, this language was no accident. It was intentional.
I'm no expert on the history of this language... but if what you say is really the way it happened, then I agree with you that it was intentional. So, again, tell me how this makes ALPA an effective representative for the Delta pilots.