Originally Posted by
RemoveB4Flight
Newsflash- you've already given away a cut of your paycheck when you voted yes to that contract, but instead of going to ALPA for benefits from them, it's paying for airplanes for the company.
Newsflash: alpa can't really do much in regional-land because any significant success will make you more expensive than your bottom-feeding competitors...and then "your" flying will go elsewhere.
Flight instructors have more leverage than regional pilots, because they can vote with their feet.
The only way to win is to get out (or get really lucky and a catch good wave such that you retire before your regional reaches the end of it's natural life cycle).
You have to decide for yourself whether the benefits they do offer are worth 2%. But they'll happily take your money either way.