There is no way any kind of shortage of pilots out there. The pay scales reflect that. It called Supply and Demand. Since there is such a high supply of pilots out there and few jobs the pay scales go down. Period. Don’t buy into the propaganda that there will be a shortage of pilots for the airlines, that propaganda is being used by the flight schools and colleges everywhere to sell there service! Creating pilots...
I like the arguments about unions and see both sides of that coin but whenever I hear someone talking about a shortage of pilot in the industry I have to laugh. Numbers and statistics can be manipulated in anyway to present the data with a desired outcome. Guess what the flight schools want new enrollments are one coming up with these false numbers of pilot shortages.
Just my 2 cents.