Originally Posted by
aa73
I'm all for a switch back to ALPA. Always have been, always will be.
Management's biggest wet dream is to sit across the negotiating table from a small independent association with very little political pull. Hence the reason why AA pilots have historically never gotten a real industry leading contract. Read Confessions of a union buster...it's all spelled out in that book.
For that reason alone, I'm a huge ALPA fan.
My experience with ALPA is that their "political pull" is a myth perpetuated by the $500,000/year upper elite in Herndon. ALPA is a profit-oriented business and the flipside of the management coin that they theoretically work against. Their own ancillary workers seek fair pay and get stone-walled and ALPA then wears their own management hat against their own in-house union.
The only political pull that will ever change this hopelessly broken, corrupt and incestuous game is the actual ability to engage in self-help. That no longer exists (except also as another myth on paper) and so regardless of who is playing the same game, the outcome is certain.