I understand perfectly how ALPA works. You just explained EXACTLY why ALPA is worthless. We’re on our own anyway, so we might as well keep our own money and fight for ourselves.
IF ALPA worked differently, and IF they could get all members from all pilot groups to work together to raise the bar at the same time, there would be some advantage. As of now, it’s just a big bloated organization that makes millions off of the backs of its members while providing negligible benefit.