They got that idea by listening to management's bankruptcy bargaining presentations which were created by a bunch of Harvard outsourcing experts. Now they consider themselves "educated" and traditional unionists are "fools."

It is not a gamble. "Gamble" means they think there are odds that it will pay off. History is clear that there is no pay off in relaxed scope. The end result is always alter ego replacement until the union's representational power is irrelevant then eventual total replacement with non union workers.

We have entered the phase of representational irrelevance. We don't pick fights with management. Management placates us with 14 references to a narrow body RFP being flown by mainline pilots, feeding the peace while real airplanes are put into service which replace ours.

Why would we look at any other union's history and assume we are different?