Baradium

It's not that wearing an ALPA pin is a "United thing." It's that caring whether people do is. It's also apparently extended to whining about pilots from other airlines on their forums. Most people I fly with wear ALPA pins, but it's not a big deal if guys choose not to.

2StgTurbine

ALPA has not given me a pin to wear. In fact, I have never received any ALPA swag. ALPA obviously does not care enough to send me anything (other than that damn magazine), so why should other pilots care about me not wearing an optional piece of flare?

forgot to bid

There is an ALPA pin?

crewdawg

Do you have the right address on file? Along with the pins and lanyards I received during indoc, I've been sent a few more pins in the mail over the years, to include a 9/11 pein which is the one I wear.

DWC CAP10 USAF

Call the ALPA Membership Committee at 888-359-2572, option 3.

Anniversary pins start at 10 years, then every 5 years after that.

badflaps

When you retire they send you a metal id card, if you sharpen the edges, I have found it useful for fighting your way to the head of the Gov't free cheese line.

Floyd

I'm legacy United. One of the first things we were taught as new hires was to look at the tie. If there wasn't an Alpa pin then it is a scab from our strike in 85. Our scabs(slick ties) to this day aren't allowed to wear a pin and are not Alpa. Some will go to great lengths to either wear a similar looking pin or take the tie off whenever they can.

Now throw in Continental. Their scabs were part of their union when they merged into Alpa. From what we were told, their scabs had to be brought into Alpa and they/most wear the Alpa pin. Continental also hired some Eastern scabs. Now that we unfortunately have scabs wearing pins it makes it a little more difficult to tell. A scab is always a scab.

There is a contingent of Continental pilots who don't wear the pin and are in Alpa. I'm not touching that topic with a ten foot pole.

As far as how many are left, probably a hundred or less of the United scabs and a couple hundred plus Continental scabs. The last retires in 2028. Lorenzo hired them young.

forgot to bid

So I'm confused now. If CAL scabs wear the pin, why is there a pin check?

forgot to bid

Ops Specs Ties



^ chuck needs this tie for the next CQ ops specs video: "... and you need center line lighting, like here on my tie."



Maybe if they have sequenced flashers we could have that? Where do I want my coffee? In my mouth.

Or chin.

Or at the top of my tie.