According to a Constitutional Lawyer, who argued his points before congress in 1975, it looks like banks may be violating 14th Amendment right of Equal Protection, by having made our student loans non-dischargable in bankruptcy. Well, since airline management has used their bankruptcy protection to break their promises, I think it's time for our unions to help us out. Maybe they can help us consolidate to over-turn this relatively young, and incredibly inept tool used to turn students (many of them pilots) in the USA into debt-slaves.
When many of us took out our loans, the airline were doing well. Being a pilot was always a promising career. No so any more. Not with everything that's happened in the new millennium. If unions are having such a hard time effecting pay raises, perhaps they can help us in other ways.
Here's a link to that article on the unconstitutional reality of student loan debt slavery.
Moe Tkacik: Student Debt