Originally Posted by
BMEP100
Yeah, I know what you mean. Growing up in an Alpa household I remember well when my dad crossed the picket line and scabbed someone else's job (along with and at the direction of ALPA), on the flight deck at Eastern in 1962. Same thing happened at several other Alpa carriers. Dad was very conflicted about that. We lost friends who lost their jobs. Alpa loved it as did the airline mgt.
oh wait, that was ancient history right , or is it never forget or forgive.?
Alpa is no lesss self serving than any other group, and maybe just as hypocritical.
Set aside the "sins of the father stuff" this post just doesn't sound right. This was or turned into one union(FEIA) vs another union(ALPA). ALPA wanted to represent all flight deck crew-members and won.
Maybe this could shed some light:
FLIGHT ENGINEERS INT. ASS'N, EAL CHAP. v. Eastern Air Lines, 208 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1962) :: Justia
Or just Goggle 'Flight Engineer strike of 1962'.
ALPA is self serving at the discretion of the pilot groups. AA and SW have done well without ALPA but they also benefit from some of the work that ALPA does. It's much easier to draw from the strength of experience than to build/rebuild from scratch. Ask - why did JB and VA (our newest member groups) along with many smaller regional/code-share airline groups elect to join ALPA?
We can all come up with a beef that ALPA wronged us in one way or another but when you get down to it we are better off for the work that ALPA has done and will do at the airlines, FAA, NTSB and the profession.