Originally Posted by
eaglefly
....and yet 100% of USAPA's focus since then has been only about the Nic, merger or not. Regaining/resolving the other two have seem to fallen out of sight of their rear-view mirror, long ago.
I find the assertion that the Nic was a "last straw" issue to be as much of a rationalization/excuse as any other claim.
Just my observation..........
That's not true, but you are not here to see the other things going on. Neither side has been willing to let the Nic fight go, but the west has made EVERYTHING about the NIC. They fight us on every single issue, and most have nothing to do with the Nic.
You can believe the last straw argument or not, but I was here. I voted for ALPA for several different reasons, none of them being that I actually had a high opinion of ALPA. Without the support of the senior guys that were unaffected, or only slightly affected by the Nic, USAPA would not have been elected.
If we were not a divided pilot group over the SLI I would have voted for an independent union in a heartbeat. You should have seen the obscene amount of money ALPA threw at us to get us to stay.