Originally Posted by uptpilot

ALPA - hahahahahahhahahahaaaa.. They are too busy strengthening cockpit doors. They can't even get lithium battery shipments squashed and that is a no-brainer known danger that has caused many crashes. ALPA wastes HUGE amounts of money and simply has become a self-preservation organization of its own existence. They have a monopoly and they act like it.

You can do a hell of a lot more than ALPA by:
1) writing letters to the FAA (I speak from personal experience),
2) suing the FAA or companies,
3) educating the public,
4) joining consumer advocacy groups,
5) using the mainstream media to voice your opinions.

Personally I think we need to audit ALPA and do what we can do cut our union payments in half. We're simply not getting our money's worth. There are too many people that know only aviation and only the low performance of the industry to cite as status quo. ALPA makes a few incremental changes here and there but nothing they do is revolutionary. It is evolutionary but in geologic time. ALPA should've have deep sixxed Gateway 7 a long time ago. They simply do not have a warrior mindset. Think of how effective the teachers' unions are. Think of how effective McDonald's workers were in forcing their company to pay them $15/hr with NO UNION and no organization other than social media. Those are the kind of performance standards that I expect.