Add one more for ALPA. Personally, when I go to buy something like a bicycle I'd rather get a quality one from a local bike shop. I'd never think of buying some chinese pos from Wal-Mart. Why should our union be any different? ALPA is a PILOT union, Teamsters is a "we'll take any workgroup that pays dues" union.

Fellow Colgan aviators we need Teamsters like we need a hole in the head. Everything I read about this union is bad. They have weak contracts and weak representatives. I keep reading anecdotes about pilot's not being backed up by The Teamsters when the company is trying to Rail Road them. Every Republic pilot I talk to is unhappy with their representation. I've heard several pilots that are getting furloughed say they have gotten more assistance and communications from the company than they have from Teamsters.

Lets remember that no matter who we go with, it's us as the pilot group that will be negotiating senority list integrations. Wether it be Teamsters v. ALPA, ALPA v. ALPA, or god forbid Buddy Casey v. ALPA. Read ALPA's merger policy on their website. It will completely disavow this falsification that an ALPA v ALPA merger will result in some conflict of interest. Whatever happens we'll be negotiating for ourselves.