Originally Posted by
Enemyofthestate
The creative options are the ones within the framework of ALPA that the DPA has not bothered with, as articulated above. Our union does not fear DPA because they know they do not have the numbers - they are giving it just enough attention so that DPA thinks they are having an impact, but according to my reps they do not consider it a real threat at all.
What ALPA and our local union really fears, like vampires afraid of the light, is a true democratic movement that could unseat their empire. I have no respect for the DPA because they offer nothing but empty hope for the disenfranchised while ignoring the obvious solutions right under their noses.
Just imagine if they actually had the numbers that they claim to have actively voting in LEC elections, writing resolutions, initiating recalls. Take a lesson from Moak on how it's done.
In the mean time we will have the union we deserve.
One third of the reps were voted in 6 months ago. Another third 18 months ago, and the last 30 months ago. How is this not democratic?
Democracy mean you vote and then live with the results. Probably most of the pilots on this board do not like our current US President or did not like the one before him. Either way, tough beans, that is how democracy works. You don't get to stop paying taxes or get to keep voting until you get your way.
The problem with the majority of the webboard people is they don't respect democracy and they don't respect their fellow pilots. No matter how many elections we have, they always claim they need new votes. They don't want democracy, they want a tyranny of their own ideas, ones they consider superior to all other pilots.
Pilots are not sheep, nor stupid, nor lazy, nor fearful because they don't agree with you. The forum people do not represent the pilot group by a long shot and they most likely never will. Get over it. Almost every pilot that works in the union starts out with their hair on fire ready to change the world. Pretty shortly you figure out that there are no easy solutions there are only hard solutions. After that, you learn to keep pounding away, day after day, trying to come up with the hard solutions, while the webboard wonders call you names.
We have democracy in action, we have tremendous turnover in the MEC, we just don't have a tyranny of the webboard wonders. At some point you all should get over yourselves and realize that the pilots get the union they want, just not exactly the one YOU want. You are only one pilot and your vote counts just as much as the next guy in line, no more no less.