Yes they are, but there is way too much insulation and bureaucracy for the proletariat to get thru. Just TRY to put through some sort of resolution at a meeting sometime... make sure it one that most of the pilots can get behind.. and watch it die right there in front of your eyes... if not there, it will be beheaded in some comittee before it ever gets to national. I'll help ya start.

BE IT RESOLVED: Since ALPA represents a large contingent of airlines, and whereas the vast majority of those airlines make far less than the legacy airlines, in order for the ALPA MEC to be in touch with his constituency, that his pay reflect the pay of the captains in ALL of those airlines, not just the three highest ones... AND that that pay now be based on an average of the highest paying captain at all member airlines under the ALPA stewardship.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that his retirement hereby be null and void as is the majority of his constituency

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that since NO commuter receives a housing allowance in the city to which he must commute, that that allowance hereby be revoked indefinitely.

Sorry for the run on... but this kind of "take it back" campaign won't even see the light of day in Herndon. Guaranteed