Originally Posted by Fly4hire

Answering the thread question-

1) we lose our legislative clout in DC. ATA and purely profit driven agenda's will become the landscape defining our careers.

2) representation will suffer both on a local and MEC level. The relative ineffectiveness will make DALPA look like the good old days.

3) dues and assessments will increase. We'll spend more and get a lot less.

4) for all the support they supposedly enjoy they will be hard pressed to find enough volunteers to go beyond licking a stamp to run all the various functions that ALPA currently provides.

5) without someone to blame and actually faced with doing the job themselves, they will implode rather quickly and will set us back 10 years before the pilots vote them back out and ALPA back in.

6) the acrimony and &*itching we see now will look like the good old days of unity in hindsight.

7) the politics, chest pounding, and rhetoric of the new union will make DALPA look like a textbook model of democracy and collaborative decision making in comparison.

8) they'll claim credit for the current contract successes that we'll live with for the next 6 to 7 years before they negotiate a new one.

9) RA will be giving a lot of high fives for all the successes the company will get funded by us.