Originally Posted by
HvypurplePylot
Becauae the resources that ALPA provides are worth the dues. We are only as strong as our individual membership makes our association. The IPA has less than 3000 pilots, don't think they are going to welcome twice that number of un-unified FedEx pilots just looking for an alternative. At the end of the day the volunteers and unity of the pilot group makes a strong union. We as FDX ALPA are some of the most un-unified pilots in the industry and thus we are weak. That has nothing to do with the leadership and everything to do with the "independent contractors" that work here.
while I echo some of your sentiment…saying it’s solely on the pilot group is inaccurate. Leadership is about getting a group of people to work towards something collectively. You can’t have it both ways. I don’t have much of an opinion about the union “leadership” and maybe there’s a reason? You can’t praise a group of “leaders” if the collective group doesn’t want to listen to them. Again, I agree there are too many independent contractor types. But in the same breath saying the leadership is strong seems like an oxymoron.