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Old 10th Sep 2019, 03:46
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LeadSled
 
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Originally Posted by StudentInDebt
No need to form their own union, the AFAP is doing a pretty good job of representing Jetstar pilots, any members of AIPA and the other low-fare Union are free to join the vast majority of their colleagues at any time.
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I make the assumption re. debt that you are relatively new on the scene.
I am at the other rend of the scale, and a former branch officeholder in the AFAP. Based on a perspective of some fifty or so years "in the business", I can say that, in my opinion, AFAP has never done a good job.
Indeed, at one stage, such a bad job, that it gave rise to AIPA.
All professional pilots in Australia would be/would have been better off represented by one union, but AFAP is not, in my opinion, that union, and never has been.
As far as airlines are concerned, the present setup is the gift that keeps on giving.
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