Originally Posted by
Terantious
I agree with you that ALPA should protect as many jobs as possible. I am not a big fan of them myselves either. They didn`t protect my job back in the day, left me wondering why the hell i was paying dues in the first place.
I just think that we as a pilot group have a large amount of power. It's a very critical time. The DAL pilots voted yes on this contract because the overall majority liked it. Not my dog, but I didn't. The majority of pilots at mainline carriers are very old and senior. It doesn't take management long to realize that they can exploit that fact knowing that most of these guys won't be around in the next 5-10 years. Not a conspiracy-theorist, but there is much more going on behind the scenes than we are aware of. And it is not good for us as an industry. I would've surely voted no.