Originally Posted by
Midsomer
This is the boiler plate of every person doing ALPA work. Don’t complain and if you do complain it’s not valid because you aren’t doing ALPA work.
Many of us that are critical of the union have served in our careers. If anything it gives you insight into some the fraud waste and abuse that is within the union. I don’t paint all ALPA reps or committee members with a broad brush and say they are all corrupt. History has shown that there are people doing ALPA work for reasons other than serving the pilot group.
If UA ALPA leadership is the best then why can’t we get a UA pilot elected as ALPA national chairman. Outside of Benchke we haven’t been able to get a candidate across the finish line. We always have infighting, backstabbing and people like Anne and Todd that float to the top as candidates. The largest ALPA pilot group being unable to field a successful national chairman seems odd.
So what? Is having a ALPA President from UAL somehow going to make life at UAL better for the pilots? No.
Yes UAL ALPA has had its internal issues, and that has manifested itself in a lack of unity in terms of getting someone elected as ALPA president in recent times (to me that is post 2000. I can’t speak to the previous 70 years) but at the end of the day it also doesn’t really make a difference in the quality of our contract. And that is all that matters..