Originally Posted by Bph320

Obviously when I said ALPA is looking out for our best interests some thought I was actually serious. Sarcasm is sometimes doesn't come across in writing. I am not too thrilled about ALPA. They have proven long ago that as far as ALPA National is concerned, UAL pilots are on their own. They wrote us off with no assistance during 2003 while giving NWA and Delta financial help during their chapter 11 process. ALPA's big pitch for everyone being in the same association is so that if one group goes on strike they can rely on all other ALPA carriers for Strike Assessment assistance. Now ALPA doesn't have to start writing strike assistant checks until a pilot group is out for 30 days. Then they have to go get money from everyone else. Now how many days was the 1985 UAL strike? 29 days! I wonder why? ALPA could not afford to assist 5000 UAL pilots then. What is the likelihood they can support 10 ,000? I believe we need our own representation ASAP. We are in a custody battle for OUR domestic flying and we are relying on our spouses attorney to represent us. ALPA does not support our best interests. I dont need my union representing the express side of the debate.
Im sure I have just ****ed off a few fundamentalist extremist ALPA die hards. For them criticizing the union is like criticizing Islam. I better be careful, my car might get vandalized.