Our "labor union" is fractured. Nor does our "union" have the professional training or time to effectively negotiate. Our in house lawyers are also not professionally experienced to conduct hard nosed labor negotiations. They are staff attorneys who perform routine small grievance issues, and I dare say not well at that!

We should take our $13M dollars a year in dues payments and hire a professional labor negotiating law firm. The company will react completely differently to a known labor law firm than a group of pilots and their staff attorneys.

This has to be the only industry in America where a collective bargaining entity refuses to utilize the legal resources available to it, thus routinely achieving mediocrity.