Originally Posted by Check Essential

Moak and O'Malley and the rest of the ALPA establishment see themselves as corporate executives now. They are "engaged" and in the know. They have a guy on the Board of Directors. Management strokes their egos by having them sign very important looking confidentiality agreements and then feeding them "privileged information" that the lowly line pilots couldn't possibly absorb and comprehend.
ALPA is now in partnership with management and they say so right out loud.

Traditional trade unionists have been marginalized and portrayed as dangerous extremists.
Filing a simple grievance to enforce our scope is a completely radical notion.

I think its too late to reverse course. We are committed. I hope Moak's philosophy works and we are not "representationally irrelevant" but I'm very skeptical. (if you couldn't tell)

I tend to agree with you Bar. ALPA's decision not to defend mainline scope could be the end of us.