Originally Posted by
PurpleTurtle
ALPA is just one more layer of bureaucracy that allows more dirty largesse and corruption.
We have enough dirty tricks at the in house union. Send power up higher to more distant and unelected reps, it will just get nastier.
Disagree 100%. The proof, is quite simply the fact that UAL and DAL have consistently outperformed us every contract cycle the past few decades. Dirty tricks or not, ALPA gets the job done for legacy carriers in good times. Bad times, everyone gets spanked no matter who the union is. Same for financially troubled carriers.