Aviation Organizations

I think that every pilot should include themselves into some organizations so that you know that someone has your back when something unforeseen happens. The two organizations I wish to become a part of when I get into the aviation industry are the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) who I had mentioned in a previous blog.

ALPA solely focuses on airline pilots and their well being, their mission is to promote and champion all aspects of aviation safety throughout all segments of the aviation community (Airline pilots association, n.d.). Obviously that was not the entire mission statement of ALPA but it is a basic overview of how they will take care of pilots in whatever way they can. The IBTs mission is to represent the workers in every craft of the aviation industry (Teamsters Airline Division, n.d.). The IBT negotiated the freight industry's first national agreement in 1964 and began its efforts to unionize the airline industry in 1966 with employees of Western Airlines (Teamsters Airline Division, n.d.).

ALPA works with so many other organizations it make it easy for them to have a say in many situations. The ALPA is affiliated with organizations such as ICAO, IFALPA, and the CLC (Airline pilots association, n.d.). As I had mentioned before ALPA only really deals with the airline pilot side of the aviation industry. With their focus on pilots they can look deeper into how ot help the pilots more at their particular job. ALPA is working toward making the airline industry safer for the pilots and helping them in any way they can to achieve this goal.

IBT is very different compared to other aviation-based organizations, because they do not only work with one type career. IBT works with almost every type of aviation career down to aircraft cleaners. There are many different things that IBT does such as safety and health, contract negotiations, and legal representation (Teamsters Airline Division, n.d.). IBT is one of the few if not only organizations that can help all the sides to the aviation industry, which is good if there is an internal conflict between two jobs that they work for, they can come to a conclusion to solve a problem faster.

It is very important that as many pilots that can get involved with these types of organization do. Pilots can come together to have a greater impact on problems that they can fix. If a pilot or someone that works in the aviation industry doesn’t like the way they are being treated at their job, whether it be pay, work environment or otherwise; employees can contact their organization that they belong to can they try to settle a situation quickly and efficiently so that they can get back to working with improved conditions.

Note: For the references I am only giving the home page of the organizations, the specific information in my blog is from their site and is easily located with their site.

References

Airline pilots association. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.alpa.org

Teamsters airline division. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://teamsterair.org