Old 06-10-2011 | 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Cruise
An in-house union will not work for RAH. You don't have the size or the funds available to adequately represent your membership. The obvious choice in your vote is ALPA. Unless you feel like donating ~5% of your salary to fund your in-house, that will have very little clout by the way, you should stick to the tried and true pilot union, ALPA.

Your dues dollars will go much further with ALPA because ALPA has the infrastructure in place, and decades of experience representing pilots, whereas your in-house will be starting from scratch. Look no further than USAPA. That is a train wreck. The RPC will join the pile. Don't make that mistake; join the 50,000+ brothers and sisters in the Air Line Pilots Association. Not 3,000 pilots trying to go it alone with inadequate resources.
ALPA has it's own mess of issues. Interest for ALPA on the RAH side is low. They need to figure out that you can't represent mainline and the groups they outsource to effectively.
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