I do wear my orange lanyard falcon- but I wear it to show solidarity with my fellow pilots in our quest for a good-to-great contract.... I do NOT wear it as a show of ALPA support... We the pilots are in a fight for a good-great contract IN SPITE of DALPA's determination to shove a POS contract down our throats with shady figures and a high dollar sales job... I hold out hope for that contract to come, but it's very tough to trust the organization that has repeatedly kicked me in the groin time after time either directly or indirectly!
You want my unity? Where was ALPA's unity when the company forloughed me only to outsource my job to the regionals?? ALPA didn't fight for me or any or pilot furloughed... Hell - they didn't even fight for us to get preferential status to be hired at those same regionals the represented!! Did my "union" call for unity when pilots were flying high time while we were all furloughed?? Crickets chirping again.... ALPA backs age 65 retirement after a poll of the pilots stated the rank and file were against it.. further stagnating our careers... You see a pattern here Falcon??
You may very well state that all of those actions were in the past and that I am crying over spilled milk- you would be correct about that, but let me also say that the next time that ALPA does something to enhance my career it will also be the first time that ALPA does so...
Capt Malone seems like a nice fellow, but the proof will be in the pudding as they say... Rumors are already being put out that we're agreeing to concessions>. I hope not!!! We shall see....
You say that management loves a pilot like me... I would say they have had much more success screwing the pilots using "my union" as the tool than they will ever get out of me....

Rant over.... Have a great big glass of orange juice! 😎