Are you guys kidding me? Without ALPA this company would have whipsawed us against each other. Without ALPA Pinnacle would have used Colgan to force you guys at Pinnacle to take concessions or they would transfer planes to Colgan. None of the three groups had a scope clause in their pre merger contract to stop this.

Without ALPA we would not have this decent JCBA we are working under today, its not perfect but its a LOT better than what Colgan was working under before. And its quite a bit better than what Pinnacle had before (barring health benefits).

What do you think would have happened had we not been 1 pilot group right now? I dont think it would have been pretty.

Everyone likes to ***** at ALPA because things are not always perfect. Let me tell you, Teamsters is terrible and in house unions tend to suck. Take a look at USAPA over at US Airways. I would rather have 1 union representing all airline pilots than a bunch of small ones.