IF USAIR leaves ALPA, United will likely follow and the end of alpa will not be far behind.
alpa managed to say bye bye to pensions, a huge amount of pay, reversed itself from saying pilots can't be sky king and marshall dillon at the same time. I loved what ALPA should have been, but what it has turned into falls short of the founder's ideas.
and to those of you who don't know...people with 4 or 5 years airline experience are now (or might be) senior to those who have flown the line for 20 years and have made captain.
there is one case where someone who was two years old when someone else got his ATP is now the senior pilot.
its also funny to watch this happen with a continental pilot at the helm ( cal used to be a scab line...though alpa head may not be a scab) and that some pilots at America West were only too happy to replace annsett airlines striking pilots in Australia.
If I am wrong, please correct me. But I would almost wager that the replacement union will win the big vote ahead.