I have always paid dues to the union and will always be a member in good standing.

The reason I no longer pay dues to ALPA is because I and my fellow pilots finally admitted a hard reality... Our ALPA reps were ignoring, limiting, and preventing pilot votes. ALPA National never had any concern for us (why would they? They had too many dues groups to keep happy..). And our ALPA local leaders had too many temptations to chase after $400K ALPA National jobs, rather than listen to the line pilot if we doubted something that ALPA National told us was in our best interests. We had an opinion and ALPA didn't allow us to have it.

We went to the NMB and secured for ourselves the right to vote about that! Some of us wanted to keep the ALPA status quo, but a majority did not.