Nevjets

Members in good standing (dues paying members) are eligible to vote for their local council representatives. These reps are volunteers. They don’t make anymore than they would flying the line. They are eligible for flight pay loss in order to attend MEC meetings. The way this works is that the MEC notifies the company of people needing off of a trip. The trip is paid for by union dues. Same goes for any trip removed from any ALPA volunteer. Per diem or food along with hotels are paid for by ALPA. If the pilot contract also has provisions negotiated for positive space travel (not all contracts have this), then that is provided by the company. Any local council meetings, representation meetings, committee meetings, everything else is purely voluntary use of their time/resources.

There is no money paid by the company for any union business unless it was negotiated for into the contract. For example, some expenses for merger related meetings can and usually are negotiated for in a transition agreement. But those expenses wouldn’t exist if the company hadn’t made the business decision to merge, hence why it’s negotiated that the company pays for it.