Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Second, ALPA is an easy target, and people like to shoot without all of the facts. Perception is powerful, and when one is full of emotion without all of the facts, perception sways a decision.
That may be the way you run your life, but it's sure not the way I run mine. Your "decision making" process is full of emotion and perception with regard to ALPA. You see the clear facts with your own eyes with regard to the lack of section 1 defense and the clear conflict of interest with ALPA representing both sides of a competing interest. Yet you shut your eyes and cover your ears due to loyalty, perception and a strong emotional attachment to ALPA. Your paragraph above is one you should study, and try to avoid yourself.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Third, I did not benefit from the RJ's. It merely was what I flew when the Props went away because there was no major to get hired to,
Wrong. One or more of the majors has been hiring fairly consistently since 1979. You flew RJ's because you chose to build your experience that way.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Not every pilot no position can or will be happy about every consensus vote. That is reality.
Wrong again. There is ONE position that EVERY pilot agrees with. It is the position of outsourcing pilot jobs, and DALPA just made that a much easier process for management. THAT'S reality.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I am sorry you feel slighted by ALPA.
That is a total mischaracterization of DAWG's post. He doesn't "feel slighted", he sounds to me like he's done with ALPA due to its many failures. Quit trying to describe guys' fact based decisions as emotional tantrums. You only make yourself look more duplicitous.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Many people that have sent in a card have a issue with the ppl of ALPA, and because of these people, they cannot use the mechanisms in place to further their wants.
Wrong again. Most people that have turned in DPA cards have done so because of the structure of ALPA...not its people. People come and go, structure and bureaucracy survives all.
Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I say change the people if you want, because that is where the most effective change will come from. DPA should be thinking across these line as well.
That's not what DPA is thinking at all. There are many current people within DALPA that will likely win elections in a DPA. But then they will not be hampered by the national ambitions and strategy of ALPA. And THAT will make all the difference in the world.
Carl