You're going to have to explain how "ALPA" (how are you defining ALPA in these sentences National or local?) was responsible for the loss of our pensions. In your own words, you describe the pensions as the "last valuable pillar that made this job worth having." So you're saying that "ALPA" took this valuable form of compensation, and what, just gave it away? Really?
Since I'm a United guy and I'm pretty familiar with how the loss of our pension went down, feel free to tell me how "ALPA" gave away the pensions here. And let's not talk in superlatives, let's talk real numbers. I want YOU to tell me and all of us on this forum specifically what happened to the pensions here at UAL so that you can illustrate your points. Tell me how underfunded our pensions became, HOW they became underfunded, how much money was needed to fund them to the minimum level required by law, WHERE the money to fill that hole would come from, and how ALPA knew the money was there to fix the pensions, but took positive, proactive steps to prevent that money from refunding our pension because they wanted to see them gone. I want you to use real numbers, dates, and events.
Feel free to do that for ANY airline, for that matter. If what you're saying is true, it should be extremely easy to prove. If you can't provide that factual, verifiable information, I suggest you find something else to bash ALPA about, because I suspect you're not going to do very well on this particular topic.
I'm not discussing the situation at UAL. The situation at USAir started the dominoes falling. ALPA national over saw the shafting of the USAir pilot group, beyond that your free too do the research necessary to answer your questions.
I'm done...still not an ALPA fan.