Welcome Hunter. Hows Colorado?
Re working from home and doing things on layovers etc. I am all for it. As long as it is rostered and the employer does not start to take liberties.
As for Jetconnect. I know of one of their pilots who was very outspoken on ALPA and how crappy they were when he flew the link routes. He got into Jetconnect and joined ALPA because the terms and conditions were so much better. Actually come to think of it there may have been two.
One thing I would suggest to those in Jet Connect complaining about how crap ALPA is. LEAVE!!! Form your own union. Join the Feds. Hey you can all join Remoaks "Quite alot" management interfacers I hear they're making progress.
OR........CHANGE ALPA
The union is only as good as it's members. Stop whinging in flight decks about ALPA not doing anything. Attend your meetings and start asking questions such as WHATS GOING ON?
Hang on.......isn't that what Alpapilot did at the start of this thread?