The current system of labor representation has worked so well that today's pilots are working much longer, for less pay, with even fewer medical and retirement benefits than pilots received over thirty years ago. Maybe it is time, actually it is way past time, to consider, no, create a new way of doing business. The politics, tactics and technologies have changed dramatically since ALPA was formed in ---- (How many of you actually know when ALPA was formed?) yet ALPA is almost unchanged from its earliest design. ALPA, along with all of the other non affiliated pilot associations, has permitted the airline pilot profession to sink to the level of bus drivers, and my apologies to bus drivers. If you like the way things are heading today and you like being firmly planted in the middle class for most of your career do nothing. Be a "sheeple" and echo the pilot mantra, "There is nothing I can do about it, anyhow at least I have a job." Yep you make every airline CEO get a warm fuzzy every time you express this thought. Very sad.