ALPA has always been a slippery organization. I remember the days in the early 80s when the "B Scale" (Separate pay scale for new hires) phenomena came about.
A large majority of non junior pilots had voted for it to protect their own bloated salaries from evaporating.
Then, about five years later, airline labor politics suddenly changed: It became the largest labor agenda to get rid of that nasty "B Scale!" ALPA, including its "not-so-junior" members who had voted for "B Scale," were suddenly fighting with management over it, ...as if ALPA had nothing ever to do with the birth of "B Scale."
. . . Never any desperate situations, only desperate people.