The IPA and SWAPA are typically passive company unions that have benefitted from consistently profitable companies and ALPA pilot groups setting the market for pilot compensation. You think Chinese and Middle East airlines would be paying what they are without ALPA?

The only reason the APA wasn't bankrupted by their $45.5M fine for defying a federal judge was that AA management didn't want the American pilots to rejoin ALPA. That should be a clue of ALPA's effectiveness. Airline managements would love for ALPA to disappear and company unions to proliferate.