Originally Posted by acl65pilot

I believe that we could work on a few by-law changes. FACT is that what is good for mainline will be good for the regional pilots that WANT to move up. Many see that.

Simply put the biggest issue to date is that the President of ALPA has to sign all contracts. I know that he would always sign our contract because of the implications of not doing so.

I do agree, and I am trying to keep this plain vanilla to get the ideas out there. If you have a suggestion on how to remove the conflict and keep ALPA share it.
I think that there is a huge unity value to ALPA. Problem is that everyone has self serving interests. Part of that is needed and is the design of ALPA. The problem is that people sure when they do not get their way. I think that suing your representing body hurts everyone and ultimately has made ALPA on may levels gun shy. It has led to our current situation.