defending your contract is something they ARE good at, including protecting your pay.

you're confusing protecting your pay, with contract negotiations. One, the union has great power, the second not so much.

preventing another carrier from taking concessions to get more work & planes which means more faster upgrades is something they are NOT good at, because pilots vote what's best for them individually right now, without looking at the long term harm, because in most cases they see regionals as a temporary stepping stone, so who cares what happens after they're gone.

the national "unions" don't have the authority to tell an individual pilot group that they can't vote yes on concessions.