5% of your paycheck for less benefits than ALPA.

Throwing out random numbers to make a point, but the point is accurate. It would be cost prohibitive to self-fund a union.

If people think there's a conflict of interest with ALPA, then they either don't understand ALPA's structure, the airline union system, or both.

The only logical path to take with unions would be to go ALPA.

That said, ALPA won't do us any good so long as the pilot group is on a Koolaid IV. The same reason that there isn't a conflict of interest is the same reason that it might not do us any good. Its all up to the MEC, which is comprised of our pilot group. Our pilot group sucks at pushing the company for change. So nothing would probably change, unless joining a union actually invigorated the pilot group.