I would join the ALAE but they are not a recognized union with Birdseed and so have no negotiation privileges. I remain a member with the union for one reason only: legal coverage and accident insurance. I have no confidence in the union stewards who appear to be self serving, or the union who are a general engineering union and have no appreciation of a/c maintenance engineering.
OK, off the soapbox now..............
(Anyway, I'm going to be out of the engineering business soon, anyway, so it will not bother me further.) (yipeee!)
[This message has been edited by spanners (edited 02 October 1999).]