One of the pervasive attitudes among the pilot folk is this whole "I value the ability to not take work home with me". This is a major draw for the pilot crowd at every compensation level. The unintended consequence is that such attitude feeds and usually rolls into a general apathy for the political idiosyncrasies that lead to the airline profession being such a lateral-progression-handicapped vocation as it is. That's all labor's apathy's doing, not management. It's your fault if you let the man manage your money for the comfort of not taking work home with you.

It's a catch-22. People flock to the profession because they want a push on push off type of job. It is this very push on push off nature that makes them perfect target to be yanked around when it comes to labor negotiations. General lack of knowledge and/or lack of interest in topics such as RLA et al are perfect examples. I'm not even a 121 guy, but even when I ask those who are at my squadron, they quickly shorten the discourse with a "eh, I just go do my job and go home". Which I empathize with, as some of them commute sometimes to two gigs (ARC and 121); but can they really get miffed when they get raked through the coals and face their 3rd furlough and household finances scramble?

My hat's off to them, I'm not touching 121 with a 10foot pole (that's MY contribution to the profession, helping the numbers by staying out of it lol)