Originally Posted by
scambo1
This is such a quantifiable failure - if truly DALPA will do nothing except hope to improve scope in the future. In a separate thread, an unnamed ALPA national officer, said we cannot strike over scope. Therefore DALPAs proposal requires the expenditure of bargaining capital to negotiate positive scope changes...Which I believe ALPA is a proven failure at accomplishing.
This is such a critical point scambo. We must ask ourselves why ALPA is worthy to be our bargaining agent. The conventional "wisdom" is ALPA is worthy because of all their unmatched expertise. If that's the case, how in God's name could these experts have not advised all the local ALPA's that anything they gave up in Scope could NEVER AGAIN be recouped by a strike action if management disagreed? This is EXACTLY why you have legal experts advising you. How could this critical information have been kept from us?
Originally Posted by
scambo1
Scope is the bedrock and foundation of our contract, how we got to our current position is both a miscalculation by DALPA and the Delta pilots.
That is true, but this miscalculation would never have occured had we been told that Section 1 is unique in that management cannot force any change to it, and we can never strike over it. This is a shocking failure of ALPA national's legal experts.
Originally Posted by
scambo1
I am certain there are several DALPA elected reps who agree with me. You may even agree with me. The question of how we win this is a MUST answer. Short of that, I believe all dues are wasted and ALPA is utterly useless. Utterly useless.
Absolutely correct. Spot on.
Carl