Why should they. ALPA does not offer anything other than rules that ties the MEC hands. Secondly, anything that ALPA offers to an ALPA represented pilot group has a cost to it, they charge the MEC. As a non ALPA union you can still get the same services as an ALPA union except you wont have ALPA up you ass, all you have to do is pay for it, remember they charge whether you are ALPA or not.

At eagle we had requested a financial breakdown on AMR, APLA kept telling us it was not ready yet. Our MEC had visited APA president to discuss some issues on a particular day and guess what was on the APA presidents desk, the financial report that we requested which ALPA had said was not complete or ready yet.

Go independent.