Over the course of my career as a pilot at Delta Air Lines I have grown to appreciate and truly value the concepts of teamwork, open communication and shared endeavor to be successful. In my broader life, the experience of focused and conscious efforts in groups (communities) I belong to has shown how working together accomplishes much while providing a camaraderie that makes the effort enjoyable.
This blog is a grassroots effort to build a community within the Delta Pilot’s Union members to transform our union. What we seek is fairly simple:
- Increase Transparency. If DALPA makes decisions that affect Line Pilots, let us know about them before decisions are made.
- Seek out broad input. The Delta Pilots are a vast resource; a goldmine for our leaders to seek out ideas, knowledge and opinion.
- Use readily available technology to achieve this transparency, collect input and really collaborate with the Delta Pilots. Examples of technology to use? SMS instant messaging, wiki websites (for collaboration) and networking software to name just a few.
If you are a Delta Pilot and are interested in joining this effort, please send me an email (TransformALPA@gmail.com), or join the discussion at our message boards (coming soon). Stay tuned for an idea building (wiki) website to help share this movement together.
Transforming ALPA is not political. It is not about regime change, red vs. green, you or me. It is an effort to open the union’s process to better ideas and more participation. It is about asking our leaders to be more inclusive. Ultimately it is about improving our contract and our careers.
Fraternally,
Jeff Joslin
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