Well, What was ALPA supposed to do? That is really a long answer.

First, ALPA needs to forbid membership into the union for all scabs.
Second, ALPA should have been telling pilots back in the 80's if you scab you are done in the USA. No second chances. Go over-seas and go away.


Second, ALPA bribed the L CAL scabs by forgiving them to get their vote to join ALPA. ALPA seems to put membership numbers above unity. ALPA cares more about how many dues paying members it has in its ranks than the actual unity of the membership. ALPA tells its members NOT to scab and to be unified, then it forgives scabs just to get their critical vote to join ALPA in addition to gaining additional revenue stream from that membership. 800 L CAL scabs at $3500.00 per year is allot of steak dinners at Charlie Palmers in DC.

Third, ALPA needs to get membership "buy in" and membership "direction" on how to handle the regional issue. Our members do not drive the ship at all on this matter. I have seen ALPA over the last 20 years tell us members how we need to bring in the regionals under the ALPA umbrella to solve the problem, but all that did was result in a conflict of interest and of course more dues dollars for ALPA. Meanwhile, the Legacy and mainline carriers negotiate against ourselves with our own dues money while funding the regionals contract negotiations and contract maintenance. We pay for them to play. ALPA isn't wearing the pants, and the pilots most certainly are not driving the ship.