Originally Posted by
GogglesPisano
I agree on all counts. I've never agreed to utilities having access to my checking account. Even regular mortgage/car payments.
But we're talking about payroll deduction here. Just like your health insurance premiums -- do you pay those yourself or have them withheld?
I've been an ALPA member for 18 years and they have never -- not once -- screwed up the witholding amount.
I don't pay for health insurance. I don't need to.
My point is that I don't care if it is ALPA or not. The bottom line is that I have to trust an assembly of people further than 1-degree of separation away from. As a fundamental axiom, they will not care if a mistake or intentional act doesn't benefit me. It is a layer of protection never to sign any contract/agreement with language as draconian as the ALPA language. If they never have an intention to screw me over, they can change there language to include a severability clause that allows me to stop automatic payments whenever *I* choose to do so. Why should I trust anyone who is effectively holding a gun to my head with a contract as insulting as theirs? Have you ever stopped and thought about questioning the verbiage of the ALPA autopay contract/agreement? Believe me, I would love to have it autopay but I will never do so with the legal language they have on there. This is not about what I feel, what you feel, how they have never screwed you in 18 yrs, etc... this is about the fact that the legal language of the autopay contract is draconian.