Originally Posted by
xjcaptain
The product that most businessess provide also varies greatly. Those that offer a better product tend to do better than those that do not. Problem is ALPA holds what amounts to a monopoly in their "business" area. I think if ALPA had some legitimate competition some of their practices would be greatly improved.
I think ALPA has quite a bit of competition. Some of the biggest players in the airlines today are either teamsters or their own independent union (American, US Air, Southwest).
While we as individual pilots can't chose which union we belong to inside our company we do have the ability to change our in-house union's affiliation. If Eagle doesn't like ALPA the pilots can switch to IBT or start their own independent union. So it's in ALPAs best interest to do the best they can as if they are seen as week they'll start losing member airlines.