Teamsters and ALPA -- Compare and Contrast
05-05-2016 | 11:58 PM
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ALPA lost its collective mind during the 80's. We had a republican as MEC Chair and thousands of pilots on the street. If you want references for ALPA, I recommend asking any Braniff, Eastern, Continental or Frontier pilots. Or even a former member of PATCO. There's a reason no large ALPA carrier has risked a strike in 30 years.
05-06-2016 | 06:09 AM
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ALPA lost its collective mind during the 80's. We had a republican as MEC Chair and thousands of pilots on the street. If you want references for ALPA, I recommend asking any Braniff, Eastern, Continental or Frontier pilots. Or even a former member of PATCO. There's a reason no large ALPA carrier has risked a strike in 30 years.
05-06-2016 | 06:17 AM
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05-08-2016 | 05:20 PM
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Yep, The Northwest strike. The one major US airline no one had a problem with. If you look back United couldn't risk a strike, there were too many ex-Frontier pilots who would have danced across that picket line. Delta and American had their problems too. They may look at ALPA or the APA as a security blanket but it requires a workforce who will supports labor and basically 75% of commercial pilots think their republicans.
07-25-2016 | 12:17 PM
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IPA is the ups pilots union, it serves just the ups pilot group. SWAPA and APA serves just their pilot groups as well.
ALPA is a larger animal...each pilot group participating in ALPA gets their own MEC which runs locally within the airline but dues are paid to ALPA for some of the heavy lifting (read bribes/influence) for such items as 117 and age 65 rule.
I prefer the IPA over being affiliated with ALPA. We have our own agenda and hence our own best interests at heart when we are represented by IPA pilots alone.
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06-14-2017 | 04:09 AM
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06-14-2017 | 05:34 AM
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ALPA lost its collective mind during the 80's. We had a republican as MEC Chair and thousands of pilots on the street. If you want references for ALPA, I recommend asking any Braniff, Eastern, Continental or Frontier pilots. Or even a former member of PATCO. There's a reason no large ALPA carrier has risked a strike in 30 years.
06-14-2017 | 05:37 AM
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Heron,
IPA is the ups pilots union, it serves just the ups pilot group. SWAPA and APA serves just their pilot groups as well.
ALPA is a larger animal...each pilot group participating in ALPA gets their own MEC which runs locally within the airline but dues are paid to ALPA for some of the heavy lifting (read bribes/influence) for such items as 117 and age 65 rule.
I prefer the IPA over being affiliated with ALPA. We have our own agenda and hence our own best interests at heart when we are represented by IPA pilots alone.
JMO
IPA is the ups pilots union, it serves just the ups pilot group. SWAPA and APA serves just their pilot groups as well.
ALPA is a larger animal...each pilot group participating in ALPA gets their own MEC which runs locally within the airline but dues are paid to ALPA for some of the heavy lifting (read bribes/influence) for such items as 117 and age 65 rule.
I prefer the IPA over being affiliated with ALPA. We have our own agenda and hence our own best interests at heart when we are represented by IPA pilots alone.
JMO
08-15-2017 | 02:55 PM
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Due to family Ive been involved with politics most my life.
Political action committees are a difficult animal to control. By sheer nature you can hide funding through them thats why they were created. They work great depending on your goals and views lol
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Political action committees are a difficult animal to control. By sheer nature you can hide funding through them thats why they were created. They work great depending on your goals and views lol
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