Originally Posted by
CheapTrick
At DAL I doubt anyone would notice or care. You certainly wouldn't feel any blowback on the line. As long as your paying your share, why would it matter that you choose to not vote? The majority don't vote in elections. Union meetings with 30 pilots would be considered well attended. And even contract votes see large percentages just not bothering. Go ahead and opt-out if it makes you feel better. If you don't tell anyone, no one will know.
For most of my time at DAL the LEC's posted a list of nonmembers. From the late eighties to the mid nineties about 10% of the pilot group were nonmembers. Delta was an open shop until the Pan Am acquisition when Alpa negotiated a small pay raise and agency shop to allow the integration of the acquired pilots. Since then the number of nonmembers has shrunk to very few.