Originally Posted by
eaglefly
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.
And so.... If we can't even engage in self help, how much less effective is it to appear in front of management with a weak association that has very little political pull, instead of a much more powerful union that has a lot more.
Also. Can it be just coincidence that ual and dal continue to blow us away with just about every contract the past 20 years?
APA is a broken association. Time to change it up. ALPA is probably not the perfect solution but at this rate I'm ready to give it a try.