Originally Posted by
word302
You speak like ALPA was a proponent of scope-give and the regional model as a whole. It was the members who voted for their own wallets at the detriment of the next generation. ALPA is only as good as it's voting members. The conflict of interest argument is silly. ALPA gives it's regionals the same resources as it's majors. They can't help if the MECs aren't capable of leading/managements are adversarial. If you have a good company with solid management, a union can only help. It can't work magic.
I used to agree with you until the UAX/UA jumpseat disagreement. I find it incredibly coincidental that the only two carriers who went to bat against UA unilaterally changing the jumpseat agreement were Republic and SkyWest, both non-ALPA, while every single ALPA UAX carrier said nothing.