Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
ALPA itself needs a rework, but most people do not realize the benefits of a union its size. Normally when they realize it, is when they get in hot water, and ALPA is the only thing that saves their career. I have seen in many times.
There are good things too.
That said, there are bad things as well. We just need to be willing to step up and fix them not just complain from the side lines. You union dues are not like a Country Club membership. The idea is that with numbers there is strength, same goes for our dollars.
An in house union with the benefits of CAPA would be better than ALPA. CAPA is a coalition of the American, Southwest, UPS, and Airtran pilots. ALPA has a serious conflict of interest and it appears that it doesn't want to fix it. An in house Delta union alligned with CAPA would be much better in my opinion. We should do it now so that in 2012 we can actually fix some of our problems.