Originally Posted by
lear700pilot
We all know ALPA is a broken environment and doesn't represent the airlines as a whole appropriately, but how do we all unite to create a standard in compensation that rewards all appropriately?
ALPA isn't broken, it's working as intended. What is broken are the people elected to represent you, your fellow pilots. When the pilots who are represented, stay home and ride their mountain bikes, shoot pool, and watch reruns of the Golden Girls instead of going to their local chapter meetings, this is what you get, poor representation. It's no secret that no one looks after your interests like you do, and when you leave the union reps alone they, in the absence of input from their represented constutuients, do what they think is best, for them.
Let's face it, anyone who wants to hang out with management pogues is retarded to begin with.
"Standard in compensation that rewards all appropriately"
You want more money? You gotta pry it out of their greedy, gluttonous hands, and that requires the heavy lifting of "union work"