RA RA RA yep those pesky regionals are draining all the money out of ALPA, RA RA RA
Sorry to interrupt with a dose of reality, but ALPA's biggest expense has been legal judgments and settlements. For the most part, all of these expenses have either been brought by, or against, mainline bargaining groups (including our own, reference Miller v. ALPA). UAL just got us hit for $44,000,0000.00. While it has been a while, the original nuclear strike on our major contingency fund arose out of the Delta / Pan Am merger. ALPA has defended stuff as stupid as MEC members awarding themselves bonus money on United's ESOP and we probably don't really want to talk publicly on liabilities which started in ALPA owned condominiums (regional guys barely know those exist).
Of course a lot of those defense costs are part of ALPA's duty to represent pilots. The only reason I mention the egregious stuff is because those are costs the mainline pilots have generated.
What's amusing is to read the Skywest thread and read the reason they do not want to join ALPA is to have their dues money squandered on mainline pilots.
... ok, back to blaming everyone else for our problems ... sorry for the "noise."
Kind of reminds me of this clip (pardon the language) when Larry Flynt tells his lawyer
"Don't be so melodramatic. You'll never quit. I'm your dream client, I'm more fun, I'm rich and I'm always in trouble." They guy had a point.
Larry's attorney quits