No kidding. I know exactly how ALPA works. ALPA is a political machine. The current national president promoted the current MEC. The individual councils vote the way they are told to vote. This is how pensions are terminated, pilots under contract vote themselves paycuts (idiots), and scope is given away for nothing by pilots (morons). We do not think for ourselves. We have blind faith in a union that looks out for its own interest over ours'.