I wouldn't say ALPA is useless. It's just that they're the ones that are the most convenient to blame for our shortcomings. There are so many things stacked against pilot labor that ALPA can't possibly deal with all of them. My company has been in negotiations for too long, all the while ALPA and the support on the other side of the table sees that management are not negotiating in good faith yet nothing is being done. Can ALPA be blamed for that? Who knows. People say don't rely on national, it's up to the locals to make decisions and the locals keeps saying national is helping us. I would have to say though that when people are bad mouthing ALPA they're actually trying to badmouth their own union, not national. Am I correct?