HKALPA?
Quad, you really don't know how HKALPA works do you?
The HKAOA to all intent runs HKALPA. HKALPA is merely the vehicle for all HKG unions affiliated to HKALPA to have IFALPA protection. HKALPA cannot negotiate anything for you with your employer.
And it was HKAOA staff and GC members that got Captain Lettich out of HKG, not HKALPA. Yes they used contacts in IFALPA to help with getting him home but that merely demonstrates how the worldwide brotherhood of pilots can get together when necessary.
BTW Captain Lettich wasn't even a member of an IFALPA union but the HKAOA guys still went in to help him.