Pilot Union Members Orchestrate Coup Against Labor Bosses

Members of American Airlines’ pilot union voted to approve a new vote threshold that could make it easier for the organization to merge with a larger union.

Allied Pilots Association (APA) Secretary-Treasurer Philip Johnson announced that the union’s members approved a motion lowering the vote threshold for merging with other unions, according to an X post by APA on June 2. This follows years of strife between APA’s membership and leadership, and calls to merge with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).

APA represents American Airline’s approximately 16,000 pilots, whereas ALPA represents over 80,000 pilots at 42 airlines in the U.S. and Canada.

Some American pilots had previously expressed support for merging with ALPA when “AA Pilots for ALPA” formed to explore a possible merger. The APA board members considered merging with ALPA or continuing as an independent union, but a tie vote fell shy of the threshold needed to dissolve the union.

This latest vote could reopen the possibility of another push from members of APA to merge with ALPA.

APA, ALPA, and American did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation