ALPA is a business. It's a business that doesn't produce, pack, ship, or deliver a single product. The Union's commodity is a Pilot Group that is forced to pay them no matter if their service is good, bad, or ugly (agency shop). They make their money off of us, from agency shop (2015 CBA Section 29) to insurance products to VEBA/Post 65 PRP to wet leasing... Their latest money-making scheme is this new retirement plan. They stand to make a fortune off managing it especially if they are able to push this thing on to the rest of the airline industry. What happened to the survey results the first time they pitched it to us? It's a shame that for all of our hard work and all the money we pay the union, all we get is a single vote on such a critical life-changing agreement. For the reasons of non-industry leading pay, non-industry leading retirement, and ever-expanding wet-leasing, I'm voting NO. Please join me! We don't have to eat this! We always pass these bad agreements and then complain about them for years after. Let's do something different this time! It only took about a year to get a much better TA after Delta and United voted theirs down a few years ago. Let's just say NO for once!