When the company and ALPA meet to negotiate, the company shows up with professional negotiators. ALPA shows up with a "negotiating committee" made up of local members. The professional negotiators are charging a fee for their services, and are being paid out of the company's coffers, to negotiate against the union members who are employees of the same company!

My question is, why does management get to have access to company funds to hire outside agencies to negotiate their position against us, while we have to fund our negotiators whether they be professional or local union members?

We're all employees of the same company! We should have access to the same funds as the company from the same source!