ALPA at work for you?

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Poor old irresponsible Rez...always pointing the finger at somebody else and crying about it:crying:

Accuse someone of what you are guilty of.....

freshman tactics...


YAWN....

Why don't you try voting.... who knows.. the career you save might be your own...

 

[Cobra17]

you might find it helpful if you had even the slightest inkling of what ALPA Nationals role in all of this is...ALPA National isn't the babysitter. They're not the ones who can call the magic "do over" when it's obvious that the local MEC has royally F'd it's membership.

Show me a unified in-house union...anywhere in history or the world, that is stronger than ALPA.

Right. It doesn't exist. Sorry dude, you're career sucked bad, but that doesn't give you the right to infect an innocent body just because you're convinced that your doh means jack ********************. It doesn't.

Also, it's laughable that you would call ALPA A "Facade" when you wave the flag of the "pre-doomed, whistling past the graveyard" USAPA union buscabters.

I hear the SWAPA guys are pretty happy, but maybe they would be much better off if they gave a chunk of their salaries to ALPA.

The recent turmoil in the industry has highlighted the problems with ALPA. Yes, it does a lot of good when it lobbies congress on behalf of the entire industry, but when a particular airline/MEC is in trouble, they are at the mercy of their own MEC's resources, with little or no help from ALPA national.

I'm curious what percentage of each member's dues goes directly to his or her own MEC?

 

[SaturnPilot]

Then a set of "hand signals" has to be devised so when the Lawyers say "Do not strike" *Wink* *Wink* the pilots know to not show up

or they could take the lawyers' advice for what it is...advice...and then decide for themselves what they want to do.

 

[SaturnPilot]

I hear the SWAPA guys are pretty happy, but maybe they would be much better off if they gave a chunk of their salaries to ALPA.

The recent turmoil in the industry has highlighted the problems with ALPA. Yes, it does a lot of good when it lobbies congress on behalf of the entire industry, but when a particular airline/MEC is in trouble, they are at the mercy of their own MEC's resources, with little or no help from ALPA national.

I'm curious what percentage of each member's dues goes directly to his or her own MEC?

Yeah, the SWAPA guys are pretty happy now. Is that because they work at a company that pays them well, has good management and has not gone bankrupt, or because they are an independent union? You should be asking what percentage of southwest pilots dues goes to ALPA, because SWAPA pays ALPA a large chunk of money for all of their services.

The percentage of your dues your MEC keeps depends on the size of your airline. Most regionals actually recieve more money from ALPA then they send in dues.

 

[ualdriver]

I'm curious what percentage of each member's dues goes directly to his or her own MEC?

Why be just curious? Why don't you pick up the phone and ask your reps?

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

I hear the SWAPA guys are pretty happy, but maybe they would be much better off if they gave a chunk of their salaries to ALPA.

Why are the SWAPA guys happy? Because thier union sheilds them from greedy managment, because SWA is losing money but the union still forces the company to pay well?

The recent turmoil in the industry has highlighted the problems with ALPA. Yes, it does a lot of good when it lobbies congress on behalf of the entire industry, but when a particular airline/MEC is in trouble, they are at the mercy of their own MEC's resources, with little or no help from ALPA national.

I am confused... what should ALPA be doing in this turmoil-ed industry...

So if ALPA was SWAPA all would fine and happily ever after...

It seems you lack a basic understanding of how things work in this country.

SWAPA is unique in that it works for a employee centered company. Is that SWAPA's doing or managment....