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Thanks for the clarification.

When I started almost 38 years ago the only pilots who didn't wear ALPA pins were those wide body pilots who didn't want to pay the dues in their last years. It was voluntary at that time whether one wanted to be an ALPA member or not and there weren't any contract maintenance fees for non-members either. Then along came 1983 and 1985, the pilot world changed at CAL and UAL.

My only input is a pilot with many years as an ALPA member is only a new hire at UAL and is in no way a novice in this industry.