ALPA’s use of modern technology is antiquated. We need leadership that takes a visionary approach to communication technology.
We are lacking in some basic tools. Take “search”. Most websites in the modern world have a sophisticated search bar. Our DALPA website has no “search” at all!
I recently spent 30 minutes looking unsuccessfully for a document that was on our website. I posted my frustration on the Forum. I got 3 responses from pilots and an email and a phone call from 2 different Council 44 Reps all telling me where the information was. I really appreciated the quick responses but this wastes everyone’s time.
We need modern, readily available and cheap web tools to facilitate openness, more and better information flow and eased methods for making inputs to our union. The response from our leadership has been hugely disappointing.
There are many of us who want a more responsive union. We want leadership that considers and tries to integrate good ideas. We want union officials to be open and recognize that they are in a service position. Service means being attentive, responsive, positive and understanding. We expect it.
Technology is not a yes or no proposition. We fly to 112 countries. The world is changing around us. We are limited to emails and phone calls, with a world of unused web tools available to us. Let’s get going ALPA. We want more.
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Absolutely agree with everything.
ReplyDeleteAt times I think that our leadership is doing all it takes to keep us uninformed. We lack the basic tools of modern communication and it feels as if this lack of communication is purely intentional.
How many times have we woken up to read about a "management emergency" an what's happened behind closed doors to, yet again, save the company from impending peril?
Or how we are treated with "that information is proprietary!" and then we get details on MSNBC that aftenoon while it takes our communications committee another two weeks to acknowledge anything has occurred?
Me? I'm overworked, underpaid and absolutely tired of hearing "well, American has XYZ" when we want improvements.
We need at act like a union and cease acting like another layerl of management.
Some of our leaders have forgetting their role. We need to starr electing people that prioritize the Delta pilots and not re electing those that continue to carry managements water and joyfully RSVP for some VPs birthday party.
That paradigm shift, ultimately, must be launched in the grassroots and will involve change at the top. If this change is continually resisted, they must be overthrown.
Have we learned the lessons of the Bill Brown days? No. We are repeating the same mistakes.