ALPA provides:
Individual Benefits
1. Legal representation in front of
the FAA and NTSB.
2. Medical advice and assistance
through ALPA’s Aeromedical
Office regarding all questions
concerning your medical
certificate.
3. ALPA’s loss of license insurance
program and other membership
benefit programs.
4. Legal representation in a dispute
with your employer, including the
right to a hearing in front of a
third-party arbitrator.
5. The full support of your pilot
group when your job or career as a
professional pilot is unjustly
threatened.
6. ALPA support in emergencies and
time-critical safety and security
issues by calling ALPA’s 24/7
Worldwide Accident/Incident
Hotline.
Collective Benefits
1. An enforceable contract.
2. The right to be represented by an
organization accountable only to
the pilots of Colgan Air on all
matters relating to wages, hours of
service, benefits, job security, and
other conditions of employment.
3. The right to your own representative
in all contractual disputes
resolved through the grievance
process and the right to have your
dispute heard by an independent
panel.
4. The right to your own voice,
advocating only for the pilots of
Colgan Air, during corporate
transactions including mergers
that could affect your job security
and career opportunities.
5. The right to have your professional
pilot interests represented
in the halls of government
through effective legislative,
regulatory, and political action
Service Benefits
1. The opportunity to serve fellow
pilots by participating in both
individual pilot group and ALPA
National union governance and
decision making.
2. The opportunity to serve fellow
pilots and pursue individual interests—
from air safety and security
to contract negotiations and insurance
benefits—by participating on
one of ALPA’s numerous local and
national committees.
3. The opportunity to work with
other pilot groups through
participation in collaborative
intra-pilot work groups such as
the Fee-for-Departure Task Force.
4. The opportunity to become part of
ALPA’s 77-year history of pilots
serving pilots by participating in
activities and decisions to improve
the piloting profession.
A lawyer or AOPA will not provide all of that for the same amount of money as your effective dues.
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