[quote=all4114all;549657]Then what is the purpose for belonging to ALPA?

Everyone is fighting amongst each other because ALPA encourages that environment by not having any type of tenure acknowledgment for pilots.

ALPA provides zero leadership, they love to take credit but refuse to admit any faults.

There is a reason why the two most successful airlines and pilot careers are at American and Southwest, they are non ALPA. These airlines have a line for pilots that they wait in that no one can cut in front of.

The only ones that bang the ALPA drum on this board are reps that get paid to do so.

I am often amazed at how many pilots do bash ALPA with no idea of the things that have accomplished even in the last few years. Much of it is quietly done behind the scenes in D.C. I am also amazed at how many pilots point at other labor unions as a model for doing business without any reference to the Railway Labor Act.
We work under the Railway Labor Act. Most other unions don't. The railway labor act was conceived in the robber baron days as a way to
castrate railway unions. They attempted a national strike to try and get equal wages and other work rules. They were met with federal troops and there were lots of deaths. Out of the strike came the arbitration act. Later it was amended into the railway labor act and airlines were added to the act in the thirties. From a union act working under the RLA is like trying to fight in a boxing match with your hands handcuffed behind your back.