Blah blah blah Joe. Get involved if you want change. That's how it works in this country. If you want to get rid of ALPA, start a decertification at your current airline. If it wins, you win. If it loses, at least you tried. That's how democracy works.
Yes, I do understand why the AFL-CIO would support a reasonable path to legalization (regardless of my personal feelings on the issue). Do you? Why don't you explain? You rant about it, but you haven't said, specifically, keeping reality in mind, what your specific problem with the issue is.
AFL-CIO wants to increase their membership. The jobs being done by illegals now should actually be Unionized jobs. They are straight up union labor jobs. If they can get them unionized again, and raise the pay to where it should be (those corporations sure do love their illegal alien labor supply-help that labor to become legal, and raise the pay), maybe citizens would go for those jobs again, reducing demand for illegals. Thousands upon thousands of middle class families rose up out of unionized slaughterhouse jobs and other union labor shops. Nowadays, with "every man for himself" and economic anarchy, the middle class are dying out. AFL-CIO is trying to do something to make things better for labor. Are you doing anything, Joe?
ALPA want to increase their membership, as well. It is not about personal money, it is entirely about national strength and national political and economic power. Without numbers, and unity, no repairs to the current damage can be made. It really is that simple.
