AF/KLM is not out of JV compliance contractually.
Can we at least agree your union autonomously changing the lookback for compliance to three years was nothing short of asinine?
FPL is published on the ALPA website and has always been available via the treasurer.
They are still not letting all the details out and what they are presenting came only after much begging and pleading for them to do so. The format they are using to disseminate the info is metered based upon their personal whim.
We can't do this alone. Being a big union does hav benefits in Washington despite what you want to believe. Lobbying is a necessary evil and the independents are not present there.
Lobbying will not be lost with a new union...in all likelihood it will grow more poweful because more pilots will be able to get behind and donate to an organization they trust with their money.
I never heard a rep say there wasn't any more money. In the moment we didn't know, and just because they're spending it now doesn't mean we could have gotten it
I did many times. In fact what I heard was if we didnt take the first deal offered, we would likely end up with even less.
I will concede that ALPA, like any large organization has many things it needs to work on.
I urge you, and everyone else to engage the process/organization that we do have to improve our careers. Saying "those ALPA guys will never listen to us" is a cop out. We are all "those ALPA guys" and if you choose not to participate you have proxied your voice to those that will. This is not meant to be inflammatory-I sincerely hope that you will show up to meetings, talk to your reps, volunteer for something, write an article for your LEC's publication, etc...get involved.
Change has been tried time and again. The structure is set up in a such a way that it is impossible to change...the top of the organization is nearly impenitrable by the line guy trying to get involved and change from within.
The same mantra gets repeated year after year...get involved. Guys have tried only to have their voice mushroomed. In the mean time loose contracts are negotiated, work rules are lost, small pay increases are eaten up by inflation, guys are getting bumped back to lower paying equipment, the seniority list and block hours for Delta mainline pilots shrink, etc.
ALPA has had many chances to change. They dig their heels in and lash out at their own constituents trying to cast blame away from themselves when most of the blame falls squarely on their shoulders...they accept little to no responsibility. It would be much less work to level the current organization than it would be to try to add a new door here and a walk in closet over there. It just aint happening and yet the backward slide continues.