They already have, most recently the USAir group. So what did ALPA do after that? Did they try to do better? Nope. All they saw was a loss of income (dues). So they tried to make up for it by attempting to change the by-laws to tax 401K contributions at airlines where the 401K is the only source retirement income. They knew increasing dues would surely get shot down so they tried to back-door it.

Before that you had the age 65 fiasco. What was ALPA's methodology you ask? Poll the pilot group. They didn't like the outcome, so they polled it again and again...Same result. So did they give the customer what they wanted? Nope again, they just went along with it anyway claiming they couldn't win so why even try? That sure sends a nice message to airline management. Spineless.

Don't even try to get ALPA to enforce a contract. If a company violates a provision, what is ALPA's official guidance to pilots? "Fly it now, grieve it later". Who is the genius that came up wit that? If it's against the contract, don't fly....period. If that was the policy how long would it take for the company to stop trying? Have you ever heard any other union advising it's members to knowingly violate the contract just to "help out" the company? Fat chance. So what happens now? We fly and maybe in 6 months to a year you get a settlement for a few bucks or a day off. Unless of course you happen to enter negotiations and as a sign of good faith all the open grievences are swept under the rug to start fresh.

I'm not sure what it's going to take to get ALPA to wake up. They better start listening or their membership problems will only continue.