Originally Posted by
Cyio
I have said it before and will say it again, ALPA is not here for our benefit. Sure, we do get "some" benefits from them, but we are just a number that feeds money up the ranks. Our regional unions are weak and we dont get any of the high dollar legal help like say, Delta would get. If ALPA really was looking out for us, they would either be trying to flip APA to ALPA or encouraging us to go single carrier.
They have been courting the APA for years. The dues reduction was to attract APA. They’ve been lending services to APA at below cost trying to court them into ALPA. Having worked with both unions on different issues and watching their public profiles, APA would be stupid to the umpteenth degree to go with ALPA.