Originally Posted by
Purple Drank
Don't forget to subtract ALPA dues from your profit sharing.
Originally Posted by
Splash
And don't forget to add the 15% we get added to our DPSP from the profit sharing payout. If it was a "bonus", we wouldn't have to pay dues, but we wouldn't get the 15% DPSP. I view that as a good thing. How do you view it?
Generally speaking, ALPA does good work.
I criticize them a lot and I think there's plenty of room for improvement, but there's no other credible organization that could do the job any better.
Regarding the dues question however:
I view ALPA National the same way Ronald Reagan viewed the government.
Simply put, its too big and it spends too much.
$215 million last year. That's a pretty big chunk of change for that office up there.
When I study the LM-2, I see a lot of stuff that we maybe could do without.
Top of the list -- the small army of lawyers we employ. They are bleeding us dry.