Your reply clearly points out why ALPA is not a union. A true union reaches out to the least in a class and craft, reaches out and picks them up. They negotiate for better wages and working conditions to bring them up to an industry standard.

Why? Because by doing so, they remove the ability of YOUR management to make the case that "they" are the real industry standard and YOU make too much. Ask any negotiating committee when the last time was their company said they didn't make enough money and were below "industry standard." We'll wait....

Perhaps you feel it's OK to sign concessionary contracts. Apparently the IBT Airline Division doesn't. Perhaps you feel it's OK to walk across your fellow employees picket line at your company because after all, they aren't pilots. Apparently they don't. Maybe you agree that to appease your friends, it's OK to drop the experience requirements in the cockpit. Apparently they don't.

And apparently you join in the belief that it's OK to look in disdain on fellow pilots because they don't make as much as you. Or that they must not be "real" pilots because they fly cargo and you fly people.

Call yourself a "union" member all you want. That's not what UNION people do.