Funny! That is how you meant your post, right?
SWAPA union dues are 1%. They are .25% while you are on probation.
The President of SWAPA earns 125% of line captain pay for his presidential services. Somebody please remind me what John Prater of ALPO gets paid?
On the fourth day, God did create SWAPA. Gods name is "Herb Kelleher." Quick history lesson, but it was Herb Kelleher who financially funded the startup costs and creation of SWAPA. Hmmm. Lets think about that one. Why on earth would Herb Kelleher do such a thing?
Again, my opinion only, but SWAPA is the only pilot union worth being a member.
1) They are pro-business. They fundamentally understand their business and what it takes to be financially successful.
2) SWA pilots fundamentally understand that unless ALL EMPLOYEES at SWA participate in the financial success of SWA, the pilots will not themselves be financially successful.
3) SWA pilots respect their management, and their management respects them. Pilots are generally left to do what they do best, fly airplanes. Management is generally left to do what they do best, manage a multi-billion dollar business.
Side note:
I wonder how many of us Skywest pilots feel that if we deserve industry leading pay for what we do, so then do our flight attendants? How about our mechanics? How about our dispatchers? How about the secretaries in St. George? How about the guy who empties the trash out of Chips garbage can?
All of us (ALL Skywest employees) are replaceable. Our individual success as pilots is 100% dependent on the thousands of other non-pilot Skywest employees doing the best job they can and being appropriately compensated for their hard work.
If we as pilots deserve a 5% or 10% or 30% pay raise because we are so good at what we do, then so does every other non-pilot Skywest employee.