As a former Skywest pilot and OC member, and now a proud ALPA member with a major airline, I would be opposed to ALPA spending any money on trying to help Skywest organize. They had two ALPA drives and one independent union drive in the time I was there and all failed. My feeling is that they had their chance and all the things that we said in the drive have come true. Most of these things would have been prevented had they voted in a union years ago. But no, most pilots were concerned with the less than 2% dues they would have to pay. Hows that working out for you now?

ALPA is far from perfect and individual airlines depend on strong support to be effective, but i would rather have them than not.

I wish Skywest pilots good luck in their current struggles, but the writing has been on the wall for years and the majority chose to go it alone.