I totally agree aeroguru, but I think that the more members a body has the more clout it has (within reason of course). The ALAE is too small to guide us the way we would all like to go, i.e. pay & recognition. We, at my company, are represented by the TGWU who have just rolled over and accepted a pay deal far less than our demands.
We need a union dedicated to a/c engineering but with a decent sized membership, a fine balance, perhaps, in our specialised trades! We need a voice and a loud one at that!
Anyone got any more ideas or info. on ALAE & AEEV? The "old gits" in my company keep harping on about SLATE.