[quote=all4114all;549657]Then what is the purpose for belonging to ALPA?
There is a reason why the two most successful airlines and pilot careers are at American and Southwest, they are non ALPA.
This may have a lot more to do with business decisions made by these companies than the fact that they are not affiliated with ALPA. SWA in particular has worked hard to create a different culture for its employees that rewards effort and innovation. Things have been very positive there, even while employee groups have chosen to become unionized.
The only ones that bang the ALPA drum on this board are reps that get paid to do so.
I am pro-union, and pro-ALPA. So far, I have not held a post in ALPA, paid or otherwise.
Originally Posted by
syd111
APM, feel free to post those numbers from our "volunteers" show us how they volunteer their time. Most I have seen do not spend much time on the line at all. I am not talking the ones on committees but like you said the reps. I do not consider them voulteers at all at some of the airlines.
By the way if they drop trips then they drop trips just don't keep pushing the volunteer line down our throats.
Pilots who feel that salaried ALPA officials are overpaid should try and get one of those cake jobs. Pilots who feel that serving as an LEC or MEC unpaid member is a respite from grueling line flying should try and line up some of that soft duty for themselves. Do not sit on the sidelines, jump on that gravy train if it is so flippin' easy.