Originally Posted by captainv

It's a personal choice. I choose to serve my fellow pilots, mainly with regard to safety issues.

Basically you have three choices:

-pay your dues and complain about what a bad job the union is doing.
-pay your dues and get involved, so that the rest of us can complain about what a bad job you're doing.
-leave for a better job.

I wish just paying your dues meant a quick upgrade, super-productive trips and a fat paycheck.

You mention your crappy schedule in Jan. How senior are you? Have the massive amount of CA downgrades coming to the CR7 affected your relative seniority? Or are junior pilots getting the trips you requested out of seniority?